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Soviet war crime.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.
A trivia relating to the new type bomb -
Mikhail Ivanov (1912-2014) for the Ivanov's cup in Russia.
On August 16 and 17 1945, Ivanov stepped in the soil of Hiroshia and Nagasaki to research the scale of explosion together with his colleague German Sergeev as GRU intelligence staff of the Soviet Union Embassy in Tokyo. On the way from Tokyo in the train, he drank up a bottle of whiskey while Sergeev didn't.
In Hiroshima, they sniffed around the melted stones which produced weird odor to make them feel sick.
Sergeev died of leukemia later but Ivanov didn't. Soviet authorities wondered what caused such difference. Final answer was the whiskey.
So, a cup of whiskey for a nuclear submariner in Russia is called Ivanov's cup.
Mikhail Ivanov (right) with historian Aleksei Kiritchenko(left) in November 2007
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Source: 朝日新聞の紙面から - 広島・長崎の記憶〜被爆者からのメッセージ - 朝日新聞社
Very interesting and informative postsAlways been curious about Japanese history + culture, and the P.T.O's but never researched it all that much. A lot of the mainstream history we know has been rehashed over and over, so your subject matters are very refreshing Thanks for sharing....