American historian Hasegawa: Japan hoped to end the war mediated by Moscow
The British press published material by Rona Shennan, who is trying to explain to her readers why, after the fall of the Nazi regime in Germany, Japan continued to resist.
Shannan in the INews publication writes that the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki by the US Air Force on August 6 and 9, respectively, led to the surrender of Japan. At the same time, the British journalist reports that the role was played (quote) "and the attack of the Soviet army on the Japanese army."
Rona Shennan, even with some reproach to the USSR, states literally the following:
But Ms. Shannon decided not to tell the readers about whether the USA and Britain were conducting military operations against Nazi Germany before the opening of the second front in 1944. Why tell, if in the White House it was the USA and Britain that were called the "main victors of Nazism" ...
From INews Material:
But in Britain, where they like to recall the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, this time they don’t mention a word, since they would have to tell their readers that Hitler didn’t prevent such an attack on the Soviet Union, and therefore the USSR in the first years of the war and from Japan expected an attack.
From the article:
On "its territory"? .. And there is not a word that Japan occupied these territories. But the author writes:
The mentioned Hasegawa announces that Japan allegedly “counted” on the USSR in the hope that Moscow “will help end the war with its mediation between Japan and the United States.”
Hasegawa:
As can be seen even from this material, the Western interpretations of the end of World War II, to put it mildly, are original. The message was: there were atomic bombs from the USA, but "destroyed a huge number of Japanese soldiers of the USSR." About the destroyed civilians - silence.
And Mr. Hasegawa for some reason does not say, but what prevented Japan from capitulating - "without the expected mediation mission" of the Soviet Union.
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