Also keep in mind that the Soviets killed or captured over 1 million Japs in the liberation of Manchuria............this event also sealed the fate for Japan and helped the leaders realize that defeat was inevitable.

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The war against Russia will be such that it cannot be conducted in a knightly fashion. This struggle is one of ideologies and racial differences and will have to be conducted with unprecedented, unmerciful and unrelenting harshness. -Adolf Hitler