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One thing I can say is that Stalin needed not only territorial expansion but as many as 600,000 Japanese soldiers as free laborers in Siberia to reconstruct Soviet's economy. A Japanese civilian who used to work in the logistics of Kwantung Army testifies "We did not understand that there were few foods in Siberia until Russians urged us to send food for our soldiers immediately after they had abducted them away. Stalin was in a hurry."

As a sequel to this event, Russian President Boris Yeltsin formerly apologized in 1993 when he visited Japan.
 
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michaelmaltby said:
... and let's not forget the Japanese slaves enlisted as POWs after Nomonham, 1939 .... they were already broken in harness when the 1945 cohort arrived
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I remember that a Nomonhan POW was my first common topic with you, MM.
Thanks.

I am reading a book which collected Japanese testimonies as POWs in the Battle of Guadalcanal.
What interests me is that they came home after the war was over but was obliged to give up joining the reunion of their old regiment because it was a reunion for the "honorable" POWs who fought the war to the end.

I cannot help thinking about our own unique mentality for the honor and the dishonor.
Conclusively, the "dishonorable" POWs were to organize their own reunion on the other day.
So might it have been in Siberia.
 
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Strange looking uniform coat on person on the left.

Is it military?
 
Capt. Vick said:
I wonder if any of them came back to Japan as committed communists.
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Stalin sent back 500,000 re-educated Japanese by 1952.
10% and more participated in the Japanese Communist Party immediately and the equivalent did in the Social Democratic Party of Japan.
Less than 80% stayed nonpolitical or were originally the nationalists.

The Japanese Communist Party is now a great asset and insurance for the Japanese future as it can cope with not only Russia but China and NK anytime as comrades.

Gift of Stalin
 
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