We had the Japanese home islands completely blockaded. Their greatest battleship was sunk during a Kamikaze attack on that blockading armada. They were out of options, they were out of oil, they were out of manufacturing. It was just a matter of time, but the US didn't want the Soviets getting involved so we incinerated tens of thousands of civilians and poisoned a whole generation more to demonstrate the girth of our Armydick.
the surrender of Japan had much more to do with USSR's invasion of Manchuria & Korean peninsula
Japan's fascist imperialist extraction of raw materials & industrial capacity from Korea & Manchuria was the only thing keeping them afloat... and once USSR broke the 1941 Soviet-Japanese neutrality agreement in early August 1945, the Japanese had no bargaining chip & had to sue for peace with the US
dude literally was cucking this Nazi guy, and the Nazi himself tolerated it because Sorge was such a charmer & good source of info on Japan... all the while Sorge was fooling everyone and this info between Japan & Nazis was going directly to the Soviets lmfao. Sorge supposedly even predicted the date of Barbarossa invasion but was ignored for reasons that have to do with Sorge's personal involvement with Trotskyists
"That Sorge was fluent in Japanese further enhanced his status as a Japanologist...[27] Meanwhile, Sorge befriended General Eugen Ott, the German military attaché to Japan and seduced his wife, Helma Ott... Ott now aware that Sorge was sleeping with his wife, let his friend Sorge have "free run of the embassy night and day", as one German diplomat later recalled.[33] Ott tolerated Sorge's affair with his wife on the grounds that Sorge was such a charismatic man that women always fell in love with him and so it was only natural that Sorge would sleep with his wife.[34] Ott liked to call Sorge Richard der Unwiderstehliche ("Richard the Irresistible"), as his charm made him very attractive to women."
We had the Japanese home islands completely blockaded. Their greatest battleship was sunk during a Kamikaze attack on that blockading armada. They were out of options, they were out of oil, they were out of manufacturing. It was just a matter of time, but the US didn't want the Soviets getting involved so we incinerated tens of thousands of civilians and poisoned a whole generation more to demonstrate the girth of our Armydick.
the surrender of Japan had much more to do with USSR's invasion of Manchuria & Korean peninsula
Japan's fascist imperialist extraction of raw materials & industrial capacity from Korea & Manchuria was the only thing keeping them afloat... and once USSR broke the 1941 Soviet-Japanese neutrality agreement in early August 1945, the Japanese had no bargaining chip & had to sue for peace with the US
Reading about the Soviet invasion of Manchuria is breathtaking. They absolutely steamrolled them. The Red Army in 1945 was an absolute beast. RIP.
what's crazy is Richard Sorge was the original James Bond and no one gives Soviets credit for having the sexiest & most chad spies : (
Yes I would like to know more
dude literally was cucking this Nazi guy, and the Nazi himself tolerated it because Sorge was such a charmer & good source of info on Japan... all the while Sorge was fooling everyone and this info between Japan & Nazis was going directly to the Soviets lmfao. Sorge supposedly even predicted the date of Barbarossa invasion but was ignored for reasons that have to do with Sorge's personal involvement with Trotskyists
"That Sorge was fluent in Japanese further enhanced his status as a Japanologist...[27] Meanwhile, Sorge befriended General Eugen Ott, the German military attaché to Japan and seduced his wife, Helma Ott... Ott now aware that Sorge was sleeping with his wife, let his friend Sorge have "free run of the embassy night and day", as one German diplomat later recalled.[33] Ott tolerated Sorge's affair with his wife on the grounds that Sorge was such a charismatic man that women always fell in love with him and so it was only natural that Sorge would sleep with his wife.[34] Ott liked to call Sorge Richard der Unwiderstehliche ("Richard the Irresistible"), as his charm made him very attractive to women."
Hahaha based, this is going into the copypasta file for when I encounter nazis. Rofl imagine being Ott