of foreign military bases on the territory countries). But the US threatened that, in that case, the Ryuku archipelago would never be returned to the island of Okinawa, seized by the Americans in 1945 and turned into a strategic military facility that controls approaches to Japan. That is why the Japanese are pushing the USSR, and then Russia, the obviously unenforceable conditions of peace – the return of the whole range of the Kurile Islands.
The Kurile Islands, undoubtedly, pay Japan for the genocide of the Chinese (Korean, etc.) peoples, and the efforts of the Soviet Army to liberate them. However, as indicated, the Union’s attack on the Land of the Rising Sun is not registered in the domestic and world media, as protection of the weak (soft power), was carried out suddenly. Therefore, the full-fledged peace treaty, as well as developed cultural, commercial, other relations between the USSR and Russia and Japan is still not there.
Due to the lack of an Act to end the war, Japanese prisoners of war (except for the sick and wounded, who were released immediately) returned home in groups of 100—110,000 people a year, until 1950.
Liberation of mainland China from the Japanese occupation forces. Manchurian offensive operation
Column of tanks of a group of Soviet troops liberating China
Sakhalin Island, Sikuku County (Poronaisk), liberated from the Japanese occupation. Showing the old Soviet tanks BT-7, (led by experienced, initiative crews) are quite suitable for combat in a maneuverable war
The broken Japanese tanks HaGo
The liberation of the Chinese city of Harbin by Soviet troops
The liberation of the North of Korea by the Soviet Expeditionary Force
…The famine of 1946—47g. in the USSR can be compared with the losses in a large-scale military operation. Grain was exported from the country, primarily for political reasons – the feeding of new satellites, including still unformed politically a third of the recent deadly enemy, the future GDR. Part was sold in (hungry?) France. One and a half million tons of all this grain would be enough to ensure that 800,000 Soviet citizens survived. This confirms the theory that territorial acquisitions, as well as the acquisition of new «friends», usually do not benefit the inhabitants of central Russia. Another million tons of grain rotted in the barns – probably, it was stored as a strategic reserve in case of a new war; The war did not take place, but hundreds of thousands of people died. Ten thousand chairmen of collective farms were convicted of attempts to share wheat with the rural workers who grew it. Another popular version of the post-war famine, partly true – the unfolding of the industry necessary to create an atomic bomb.
…The avalanche acceleration of work on the creation of an atomic bomb in the USSR will start only after the destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki; since August 1945. Before the obvious success of the Manhattan Project (which saved the US hundreds of thousands of lives of its soldiers), everything was reduced, basically, to the bureaucratic correspondence of individual Soviet scientists with the Stalin secretariat. Stalinist, Soviet, or, in other words, a totalitarian system of government is not in principle set up to see and hear personalities within its state; In addition to the bureaucratic committees already established by the «higher authorities.» To some extent, this can also be pointed out in relation to Nazi Germany. However, in the latter case, the absence of a system of any kind of democratic discussion and constructive criticism led to the emergence of a multitude of irrational, unnecessarily costly military developments (Comet, Fau, Me-269, Tiger, Tiger-2, «Goliath», «Mauss», etc.)
In the US, as is known, the initiative development of nuclear scientists was noted in 1943. To the voice of Albert Einstein, Enrico Fermi (then many people seemed to be crazy), etc., listen. Two billion dollars are allocated for the nuclear weapons project. The amount is decent, but not for anyone in America is not fatal. For example, this is the fifth part of the cost of all the Lend-Lease volume delivered by the USA to the USSR. Recall that the Soviet Union, in one way or another, by 1980, paid almost 4% of this military contract (and the case was closed).
In this case, «on the hook», the totalitarian bureaucratic system is at least somewhat effective. Often, because of the highest degree of schizophrenia, secrecy, scientific «offices» duplicate each other, and do not exchange promising developments. However, the seemingly inexhaustible downpour of people’s money smooths out all these roughnesses. A total of 400,000 people are involved in the project (most of them are prisoners of concentration camps, unconfirmed nuclear scientists of Beriev «sharashek»). Sharashka is a prison with lightened living conditions, for the activity of scientists and designers. Ten hectares are under construction. «Blue ringing ore» is extracted, as A. Zhigulin’s verses say. And, as is known, on August 29, 1949, at the polygon in Semipalatinsk, a Soviet RDS-1, a bomb equivalent to 21 kilotons of TNT, a full calque of the American «Baby» is exploding.
Can we say that in this way, as early as 1946—47, the Soviet atomic bomb that had not exploded had destroyed almost a million citizens of the USSR? This is a complicated question. First, America was not going to bombard the Soviet Union. If the US would like to do this, then, given the huge difference in the number of nuclear charges (2 in the USSR against 400 in the States in 1950), and the Union’s lack of reliable means of delivery, they would. However, American society is at least somewhat democratic. An ordinary citizen of the United States is not inclined to destroy a recent ally in the fight against the Axis of Evil, and this is his mood, somehow forced to accept the government.
…On March 19, 1945, Stalin makes territorial claims against Turkey. The main goal is the same as that of almost all Russian monarchs, up to the last of them, Nicholas II – Straits… Turkey immediately appeals for help to the United States and Britain. Somewhat later Turks’ anxiety will cause the High Port to join the NATO bloc.
All this undoubtedly aggravates relations between recent allies. The Soviet people do not want a new devastating war. The starving workers of agricultural enterprises, workers, employees, do not care about the Turkish Straits. But, quite well-fed Stalin, in this System of Government, the mood of ordinary people is not inclined to take into account. Yes, friends, it seems, only the Manhattan project puts a limit to ambitions, ascended to the top of the power of «the leader of all times and peoples».
This is so, but it is obviously not going to strike at, restoring its economy, within the limits set by the Yalta agreement, to the Soviet Union.
…The second. The number of agricultural workers in general does not decrease, and even increases, thanks to the return to the collective farms of demobilized soldiers. Expenses for the production of tanks, aircraft, etc. significantly reduced. Fighting is not ongoing. There is no data on large-scale drought. The amount of grain, as well as the consumers, in this case, remains the same. Only large-scale export of food to «friendly countries,» disregard for the interests of its own people for the sake of some remote «World Revolution» explains the large-scale post-war famine.
The side goal achieved by Dzhugashvili and his government in this way is the reduction of the thoughts of the soldiers, who in the last years of the war have learned to think
