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You mean enter the war against Japan? USSR were already on the Allies side fighting the Nazis in Europe.
by iand 12y ago
You mean enter the war against Japan? USSR were already on the Allies side fighting the Nazis in Europe.
- hga 12y agoBut after a very sharp action which the IJArmy lost very badly, commanded in part on the other side by an obscure Soviet general named Zhukov (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgy_Zhukov https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgy_Zhukov who unlike his two counterparts managed to avoid the 1941 purge), they signed a neutrality pact, reaffirmed after Operation Barbarossa, that they scrupulously observed. Being faced with another even more bloodily minded opponent certainly didn't hurt the surrender decision.