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Most people believe Japan surrendered in World War II because of the atomic bombs.
That’s only half the story.

Even after Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan was still preparing to fight to the last man. Millions of soldiers were mobilized, and Tokyo believed a U.S. invasion would be so bloody that Washington would be forced to negotiate.

Then something far more terrifying happened.

The Soviet Union invaded Manchuria with 1.5 million troops. In just days, Japan’s elite Kwantung Army collapsed. Unlike the Americans, the Soviets didn’t negotiate — they occupied, erased regimes, and eliminated monarchies.

For Japan’s leadership, this meant one nightmare scenario:
Soviet tanks in Tokyo.
The Emperor executed.
The Japanese monarchy wiped out forever.

Emperor Hirohito faced a brutal choice — surrender to the United States and possibly survive, or face Soviet occupation and lose everything.

Just six days after the Soviet invasion, Japan surrendered.

The atomic bombs shocked Japan.
But it was Stalin who broke them.

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