As we all know, World War II ended with the surrender of Japan on August 15, 1945, with a short period of six years, but caused immeasurable losses. According to the data, more than 2 billion people were involved in this war, and the number of deaths reached more than 70 million, of course, this is only an estimate, the number of deaths must exceed this number, and the initiator of this war is the fascists led by Nazi Germany. Although we have paid a lot, we have achieved the final victory, and it also confirms a truth that evil cannot fight justice after all.
You know, in the early days of World War II, Japan swept across Asia like a beast, and even the United States was defeated at his hands in the Pacific Theater. However, with the progress of World War II, Japan lacked the stamina of the country, and after the United States dropped two atomic bombs on the Japanese mainland, the only option was to surrender. However, after Japan surrendered, one country did not spare Japan as a country, but continued to beat up Japan, claiming that there would be no non-stop war and that the territory occupied would never be returned to Japan. So who is this country? That's right, he was the Soviet Union.
Those who have understood World War II should know that the Soviet Union's war against Japan only occurred at the end of World War II, and the Soviet Union did not send troops to Japan at all in the previous periods. It turned out that as early as 1941, the Soviet Union and Japan signed the "Soviet-Japanese Neutrality Treaty", and the two countries agreed not to invade each other, so there was no conflict between the Soviet Union and Japan in the early days of World War II. So why did the Soviet Union open fire on Japan again in the later stages? It turned out that the Soviet Union wanted to take back Sakhalin Island and the surrounding Kuril Islands, so it had to tear its mouth with Japan (presumably everyone should understand why the Soviet Union wanted to tear its mouth at this time).
In February 1945, all the major belligerents participated in the Yalta Conference in order to agree on the distribution of territory after the war, and the Allies decided to give Sakhalin Island and the surrounding archipelago to the Soviet Union, but only if the Soviet Union was required to join World War II two or three months after Germany's surrender. For this reason, in August 1945, the Soviet Union launched an offensive like the Kwantung Army stationed in the northeast of our country. The war lasted from August 8 to twenty-five, and the day of Japan's surrender was August 15, which means that the Soviet Union attacked Japan after its surrender.
According to the data, the Soviet Union sent a total of 1.5 million troops that year, and the troops launched an attack on the Kwantung Army stationed in our country in three ways, and just after three days of the war, the Kwantung Army was defeated and retreated under the strong attack of the Soviet Army, and it collapsed for a time. At this point, the Kwantung Army, which claimed to be japan's elite army, was completely destroyed, and although only a hundred thousand people died on the battlefield, all that remained became Soviet prisoners of war. A week after the Soviets joined the ranks of the Japanese, Japan chose to surrender, or Japan would have paid more.
However, after Japan's surrender, the Soviet army did not stop its own walking, but accelerated its pace to launch an attack on the Japanese troops stationed on Sakhalin Island and the Kuril Islands, and by August 31, 1945, all the Japanese troops stationed on these islands were wiped out or surrendered. After the war, the Soviet Union gained control of the Kuril Islands, Sakhalin Islands and other places, in addition to the Soviet Union also gained control of the railways of the puppet state of Manchukuo, which was once part of Japan, and so on, and also returned some to us after the Soviet Union entered the northeast of our country. However, when they withdrew from the northeast, they moved away the large factories that japan had established in the northeast on a large scale, leaving the puppet state of Manchukuo very empty. According to statistics, at the time of the withdrawal of the Soviet Union, the amount of money swept away was about 1.3 billion US dollars.