At the end of the Second World War, in 1945, the heads of state of the United States, Britain and the Soviet Union held a secret meeting in Yalta, the main purpose of which was to redivide the interests of the world. After a long period of negotiations and a conspiracy, the three countries soon each got their own benefits. In this agreement, which is very famous in later generations, it was stipulated that once Germany was defeated, the Soviet Union must declare war on Japan as soon as possible, no more than three at the latest, and the strength of the troops was to send troops directly from the Soviet Far East Military District to northeast China to eliminate the elite of the Japanese Kwantung Army. The interest is that northeast China will return to Soviet control as it did in the Tsarist era, and these three powers have not considered China that has made significant contributions and sacrifices to the victory of anti-fascism.
Although the Soviet Union has been determined to win, after more than ten years of war, most of the elite of the Japanese Kwantung Army in the northeast has been withdrawn, and the rest are later supplemented, and the combat effectiveness is not as good as before, but the Japanese army has ruled the northeast for decades, built countless powerful fortifications, coupled with the Japanese army's fearless style, if it is only defensive, the combat effectiveness of these Japanese troops will not be much worse than the elite Kwantung Army, so the Soviet army does not dare to underestimate these supplementary troops. On August 8, 1945, the Soviet Union officially declared war on Japan after making sufficient preparations. At the same time, more than 1 million Soviet troops crossed the Sino-Soviet border, divided into three routes according to the battle plan, and launched an attack on the Kwantung Army at the same time on the 1200-kilometer front line. In just 22 days, the Tohoku Kwantung Army collapsed and surrendered its weapons, almost half of the 1.4 million people were destroyed, and the remaining 700,000 Kwantung army became Soviet prisoners.
However, the number of Japanese soldiers captured by the Soviet Union reached 700,000, and when they returned home, there were less than 500,000 left, and the most feared were Soviet female nurses. The most surprising thing is why these seemingly fearless Japanese troops were the most afraid to offend the female nurses of the Soviet Union during their capture, and what was the reason? After the war, how to manage nearly 700,000 Japanese war criminals became a top priority for the Soviet Union. According to international practice, the captured Japanese troops must be treated well, and if the other side makes a request for the return of prisoners of war, it must be repatriated as long as the negotiations are successful. However, the Japanese troops captured by the Soviets were not so lucky, and in order to punish the evil Japanese troops, the Soviet troops escorted the 700,000 Kanto occupied in the region of far East Siberia, enabling them to carry out heavy work here, such as mining, logging, etc. In the cold and snowy regions of Siberia, the captured Japanese soldiers had a difficult life, they often suffered frost and starvation, so most Japanese soldiers died within a few years.
Some of the remaining soldiers in the Kwantung Army still remember their purgatory days in Siberia, and these soldiers who had experienced the war and believed in Bushido were not afraid of Soviet soldiers. The nurses in the Soviet army instead frightened them. Why is that? It turned out that the Soviet Union had a rule at that time that if Japanese prisoners were seriously ill and unable to work, they might be sent back to Japan, because the Soviet Union did not want to spend money to treat the Japanese and did not want to see them die in the camp, after all, this was not good for the international reputation of the Soviet Union. In this case, many of the captured Japanese soldiers began to pretend to be sick, and it was the Soviet nurses in the prisoner-of-war camps who could tell whether the Japanese soldiers were sick or not. Therefore, the Japanese soldiers never dared to offend the Soviet nurses. They fear the nurses will retaliate by saying they are healthy, thus losing their chances of returning home.
Many years after the end of World War II, when Some Japanese scholars studied this history, they found that the Number of Japanese prisoners captured in Siberia was no less than 700,000, but less than 30,000 were able to return to Japan in the end, and most of the others basically died in soviet prisoner-of-war camps in Siberia, but the specific truth is unknown, for these Japanese prisoners of war who invaded China and their hands were stained with Chinese blood, many people thought that they were damned, and some people said that the main responsibility for the war lay with the Japanese government, and now that the war is over, these prisoners of war have surrendered , should be forgiven.
However, compared with the Japanese army in the Soviet Union, the Japanese army captured by China was relatively lucky, and after our country captured the Japanese army, it did not retaliate against the Japanese prisoners, although they did a lot of evil deeds in China, providing food for the prisoners without discrimination, and also bearing tolls to send them back to Japan. After all, once our country killed these Japanese prisoners, it would inevitably be rebuked by the international community, and our most important task at that time was to carry out post-war reconstruction, rather than to think about how to deal with and kill these Japanese.