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How the Soviets Blitzed Japan in WW2 | Animated History - YouTube some additional lore just came out… does a certain youtuber visit our forums 
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Regardless of the outcome for this campaign idea, it is still quite remarkable how the Soviet invasion of Manchurian has been overlooked in history completely?
I mean, that animated history video was really good (Thank you for sharing) and the fights there have been HUGE.
Still, it shows how U.S dominated the history/ storytelling about the WWII has been.
Invasion of 1,5 MILLION USSR soldiers at once in 1945 has gone completely off the radar for the majority of the world population? Everyone’s eyes and memory/ history/ focus has been in Berlin and U.S Pacific island hopping?
It is pretty crazy to think how NO ONE knows about it?
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Yes, it is very fascinating and mysterious to me to this day! Who knows if the devs will ever do a campaign or event for it, but the most important thing is for people like us to remember and respect the real events <3
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It is mostly ignored because the Japanese themselves really didn’t acknowledge it happened when they surrendered, crediting mostly the Americans, the Chinese and the British as their primary foes and the Soviets as more of an intermediate force that helped negotiate the peace. The Soviets themselves didn’t contradict this narrative as to them, the victory in Berlin was worth far more in terms of propaganda than their incursions into Asia. It’s the same reason Americans sometimes don’t know that there where American forces in North Africa or people in Britain or the Greater Commonwealth don’t know they fought in Burma.
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That too is true and makes sense.
I cant imagine the pain fighting like a lion on either side, Japanese or Soviet and losing a limb or something for a campaign that is always forgotten from the history books, movies and video games almost completely.
Especially due to the fact that majority of the Soviet side troops were already hardened veterans from the Soviet Campaign in the European theater and yet, even they were shocked to see Japanese running against them as suicide soldiers with exploding spears and all that.
Most of it is due to the fact that the Soviet propaganda during wartime didn’t focus on the Pacific theater whatsoever, focusing on the European front instead. In terms of a cultural impact to the Soviets as a whole, the Pacific theater wasn’t worth much to them, so they just didn’t bring it up. For the Japanese, it also made more sense to avoid discussing Manchuria, as for Emperor Hirohito to rally the Japanese to surrender, he needed to convince them that Japan faced overwhelming odds they could not possibly match, which the atomic bombs were a far simpler way to justify the surrender than the Soviet invasion which while consisted of an overwhelming force, was still a conventional force and would have been seen as no different that the American’s island hopping across the pacific, and since that had not convinced the Japanese to surrender throughout the entirety of that campaign, there was no reason to believe that the Soviet invasion of Manchuria would not play out similarly.