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Originally Posted by tabs
11 years ago today I met General Tibet's.
The Japanese did not just surrender because of the bomb. They surrendered because the Russian army routed the Japanese army in Manchuria. The Japanese felt that so long as they held Manchuria they could hold out against the USA.
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They also knew that if Russia got into Japan, it would be divided up like Germany, and Russia would have an excellent seaport on the Pacific that they would NEVER relinquish.