The Real Reason Japan Surrendered in 1945 — It Wasn’t Just the Atomic
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I convinced myself to condemn both bombings as Truman had not given it time to sink in that Japan was now at war with the Soviets and their entire plan had gone up in smoke, in fact both factions of the war councils postitions were dead as there was no way to defend Japan against A Soviet invasion from the north and American one from the south so the Hardliners were fucked and worse than that if the Soviets took over Large Swaths of Japan they would do to Hirohito as they did to the Tsar.
I convinced myself to condemn both bombings as Truman had not given it time to sink in that Japan was now at war with the Soviets and their entire plan had gone up in smoke, in fact both factions of the war councils postitions were dead as there was no way to defend Japan against A Soviet invasion from the north and American one from the south so the Hardliners were fucked and worse than that if the Soviets took over Large Swaths of Japan they would do to Hirohito as they did to the Tsar.
