RE: History thread [split] from "New Rule - Promoting Terrorism"
July 5, 2018 at 4:26 pm
(This post was last modified: July 5, 2018 at 4:27 pm by Anomalocaris.)
(July 5, 2018 at 4:15 pm)Minimalist Wrote:Quote:Until Nagasaki the Japanese were not going to surrender.
The Japanese were trying to get Russia to broker a settlement with the Allies. The Russians attacked Manchuria the same day as the Nagasaki bomb fell. Double-crossed by the Russians the Japs knew it was over.
The firebrands still had to be brought to heel and there was an abortive attempt at a coup to try to prevent the broadcast of the Imperial Rescript on the 15th but it failed.
Not a double cross. The Russians gave 3 month advanced notice to the Japanese of their intention to withdraw from the nonaggression pact between the two countries entered into in the aftermath of the 1939 Nomenhan incident. That’s a lot more courtesy than the Russians ever received from the Nazis in 1941.
Tokyo clung so hard onto the make belief straw that russia would prefer to have japan as a buffer state against the US in the pacific and that Russia would broker a peace and bail japan out of its strategic dead end that they can not bring themselves into admit what the most probable reasons would be for the Russians to withdraw from the nonaggression pact.
