On August 27, the 16th Army of the #USSR was deployed on the #Sakhalin Island. After having entered #Manchuria & breaking through the defense systems of Great #Khingan, the USSR troops crossed the desert & defeated the elite #Kwantung army. That’s what deprived Japan from capability to conduct any military action & forced it into capitulation…
Taking into account the Japanese victory over the Russian Empire in 1905, #Hirohito couldn't admit the defeat to soviet soldiers~
https://southfront.org/how-the-united-states-saved-the-world/