At the beginning of World War II, due to the connivance and compromise of Britain and the United States, Germany, which was still cautious and cautious, began to reorganize its army and open the road to hegemony in Europe after successively annexing many small surrounding countries and completing the accumulation of primitive capital in the war. After easily destroying France, "mustache" Adolf also wanted to destroy Britain, but unfortunately, because the navy was too instigated, the air force could not fight, although across the sea, it was impossible to land, and the stalemate was only empty of materials, so he had no choice but to fight the Soviet Union first.
In the early days of the Soviet-German war, due to the Soviet Union's lack of preparation, coupled with the early strategic mistakes, poor military cooperation and other reasons, repeatedly lost defeats, lost a lot of territory; but the Soviet Union and the small countries in Europe are not the same, the Soviet Union is not only the world's largest country in terms of land area, but also has a population of nearly 200 million. Although the "blitzkrieg" achieved good results in the early stage, with the development of the war, the advantages of the Soviet Union's "large depth" strategy were highlighted, and the German army seemed to be stuck in the mud, struggling.
I have to say that the Soviet Union is really "ferocious", does not care about its own casualties and losses, recruits can shoot under simple training, and then sent to the battlefield; the requirements of the base camp for the front-line generals are also very simple - can not retreat, in fact, can not retreat? In fact, some really can't retreat, and some can retreat, which is why some generals have lost battles and been dismissed, while some generals have lost battles but have nothing to do.
Because the Soviet top brass clearly knew that the current combat effectiveness of the Soviet army was far inferior to that of the well-trained and well-equipped German army; so the strategic decision made by the Soviet top brass at the beginning was to consume the resources and elite army of the German army with a large depth and sea of people tactics, even if it was five for one or ten for one, as long as the five million most elite troops in the early stage of the German army were exhausted, then Germany had no chance of winning. Although we always see the Soviet army being captured and killed on a large scale, what we do not see is that the elite regular army of the German army is also being consumed little by little.
The Soviet Union's large-depth strategy caused the German army to supply materials at a huge cost, and from the middle stage, the fuel had begun to be insufficient; and the Soviet army's man-sea strategy, after paying huge casualties, led to the exhaustion of the German elite, had to urgently recruit new soldiers, and the quality of these new recruits was far inferior to that of the veterans, so in the middle of the Soviet-German war, the losses of both sides were basically flat; and in the later stages of the war, the Soviet army had trained a group of veterans and command teams with rich combat experience in the war, plus a huge scale, and finally Germany was reversed
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At the time of the Great Counteroffensive of the Soviet Army, although the Soviet military did not have a record of military operations against civilian targets, german civilians still died at least 2.2 million, and according to the trial records of Soviet military tribunals, the existence of large-scale criminal activities was also proved; and not only that, when the Soviet Union and the British and American allies invaded Germany, they plundered German industrial equipment and advanced research materials and scientific researchers, etc., it can be said that Germany had nothing at the time of the surrender; it was not nothing, there were a large number of mixed races ......
It didn't end there, because something more serious was about to come — the division of Germany; yes, it was the prerogative of the victorious powers, who had the right to divide up the german lands that had made a grave mistake, and it wasn't until 1990 that Germany was re-agglomerated. After the end of the European battlefield, it was Japan's turn, which had always been the United States with the armies of Australia, Canada and other countries fighting with Japan in the Pacific; from the initial defeat to the later crushing of strength, the US military fought quite well.
However, although Japan continues to have warships sunk, islands lost, planes crashed, and huge losses to the army, Japan just stood firm and did not surrender, and after the large-scale bombing of the mainland by the US military, it also shouted the slogan of "one hundred million jade fragments". By this time, the Soviets had completed the mobilization of personnel from the Far Eastern front. After the abrogation of the Soviet-Japanese Neutrality Treaty, the General Headquarters of the Soviet Army in the Far East was established in Khabarovsk under the command of the famous Marshal Vasilevsky.
This army consisted of the Transbaikal Front, the 1st Far Eastern Front, the 2nd Far Eastern Front, the Pacific Fleet, the Amur River Region Fleet, and the North Pacific Fleet, totaling 11 Composite Armies, 1 Tank Army, 3 Aviation Armies, and a number of other units, with a total strength of 1.74 million troops; perhaps this force was only the strength of a campaign during the Soviet-German War, but in the Far East it was enough to destroy Japan.
On August 8, 1945, operations code-named "August Storm" officially began, and 1.74 million Soviet troops rolled south like a torrent of steel. In fact, Japan's army is also quite large, the Kwantung Army alone has about 700,000 people, in addition to other vassal troops of about 200,000 people, as well as the 17th and 5th Fronts stationed in Korea, southern Sakhalin Islands and the Kuril Islands, adding up to a proper million. However, this was of little use, and in the end the Soviets ended the battle in less than a month.
The Japanese lost about 677,000 men, of whom 83,000 were killed and 594,000 captured, while the Soviet casualties were only 32,000. And according to the plan of the Soviet high-level, the "August Storm" was just the beginning, followed by plans to attack the Japanese mainland; many people believed that the Soviet Union had no possibility of attacking the Japanese mainland, first of all, shipping routes and transportation were a big problem, but it should be known that the Japanese Navy was basically destroyed by the Us military, and the Soviet Pacific Fleet was not an "empty shelf".
And from a strategic point of view, the benefits of the Soviet Union after taking Japan were very great; but the United States did not want to, the atomic bombs of Nagasaki and Hiroshima were actually just a warning to Japan, and what really made Japan decide to surrender was the Soviet Union, at least the Soviet Union under the propaganda of the United States. The so-called "one hundred million jade fragments" is okay to scare the Americans, but for the Soviet Union, this is really of no use. Just as the Soviet Union was preparing to attack the Japanese mainland, Japan announced its surrender, which frustrated the Soviet Plan to occupy Japan.
Brain supplement, if the Soviet Union invaded Japan, what will happen, it is very likely to be similar to the picture circulating on the Internet, the victorious countries divided Japan, of which the Soviet Union and the United States accounted for the majority, we can also share a piece of the pie; and Japan and Germany are very different, once divided, want to reunify, it is estimated that it will be more difficult, at least the Soviet Union will never allow the emperor system to exist, so the final outcome of Japan will not be much better than today's Korean Peninsula.