OPPENHEIMER: Japan's Real Reason For Surrender (The Series)

OPPENHEIMER: Japan's Real Reason For Surrender

The vast majority of the people still think that the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, which instantly killed 110,000 people , caused Japan to surrender. Even most of the Japanese have been convinced to believe this erroneous belief.

The bombing of Hiroshima was on August 6th, 1945. That city is 500 miles from Tokyo. The bombing of Nagasaki took place on three days later on August 9th. That city is 750 miles from Tokyo. Japan announced its surrender on August 15th, 1945. There is no way Japan would have known about the extent of those bomb blasts in that short a period of time with the technology they had in the Forties.

There was something else that was happening at the time Japan surrendered. The Western Press conceals this but eventually it will be exposed. The Soviet Union invaded Manchukuo (Japanese-held Manchuria) against Japan's most powerful elite military units. On August 20th 1945, Japan surrendered its most powerful military (over 600,000 crack military soldiers) to the Soviet Union after losing 84,000 of its soldiers to death.

It is obvious by August 15th, The Japanese knew it was losing badly to the Soviet Blitzkrieg. The Japanese were hoping for a negotiated peace with the Allies (mainly USA) as they wanted the Soviet Union as a mediator. When that USSR declared war on Japan, the Japanese knew they would have to surrender as they were on the verge of losing all its territory in China(Manchuria) and the northern part of the Korean peninsula.

The Japanese obviously opted to surrender to the USA in 1945 than the USSR as the Japanese knew the USA would be much more magnanimous and financially generous to the conquered Japanese than the Soviets. As Japan is starting to re-arm itself, they too will eventually dispel the myth as to why it surrendered 78 years ago.

The USA obviously wanted those atomic bomb blasts to facilitate Japan's surrender to the USA. The USA must have known it would take a month's time before Japan could survey the damage inflicted on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. While the instant loss of lives were enormous, the US bomb raids of Tokyo caused just as many immediate loss of lives. The USA authorities must have been highly surprised that Japan surrendered just six days after the Nagasaki bombing.

OPPENHEIMER: Japan's Real Reason For Surrender- Part Two

All should go to my profile and read the post as to the real reason Japan surrendered in World War Two. After one does that, then all should read the following.

The Soviets planned on invading Hokkaido, the northernmost of Japan's four main islands, on August 24th,1945, and occupying the northern half of that island. They cancelled this invasion two days prior, which happened to be one week after Japan surrendered to the USA. The Soviet Red Army successfully conquered the southern half of Sakhalin Island (located between Hokkaido and the USSR) probably before the Japanese surrender. The Soviets then captured the Kuril Islands (again located between Hokkaido and the USSR) starting on August 23rd, 1945, eight days after the Japanese surrender.

Military historian Richard B. Frank believes that despite serious Soviet deficiencies in shipping capacity and air cover, the Soviets could have succeeded in invading and conquering Japan because Japanese defenses were concentrated in the south to face the Americans, rather than the north to face the Soviets. Emperor Hirohito and his supreme war chief H. Tojo knew, after the Japanese were being routed in Manchukoa (Japan's term for China' Manchuria) and the Korean Peninsula, that the Soviet Red Army was indeed capable of conquering Japan. That in all likelihood precipitated them to unconditionally surrender to the Americans whom they thought would be much more benevolent than the "hordes from Russia".

Because the people in the West believed in certain myths, it fomented unwarranted militarism on their nations' behalf. The Soviet Union and Warsaw Pact nations (Eastern Europe) probably would have splintered much sooner than it did and would also be much more freer than it is now if the Western powers did not press the Soviet Union militarily. Flawed democratic models relies on the brainwashing of the masses before sociopathic, dysfunctional, and highly aggressive actions by its governance can take place.

OPPENHEIMER: Japan's Real Reason For Surrender- Part Three

The Soviet Union lost a minimum of one-seventh of its population to death in World War Two. That is 14% of its entire population who were killed from 1941-1945. At least a quarter of its male population died during this period. This does not include the staggering number of his people who were either wounded, disease-ridden, homeless, and impoverished. Nearly every family throughout the Soviet Union, including its dictator Joseph Stalin, had a family member who was killed by this titanic war.

After it was all said and done, it is needless to state that the absolute last thing Stalin had on his mind was liberal democracy. While there were elections in the USSR, they were all held at the local and provincial (state) levels. It is a fact that life in that nation became more austere, more regimented, and repressive as Stalin had a new enemy in his sights, the US led-Collective West. While Stalin was accused of paranoia in the 1920s, his utmost fears he had back then were realized in the 1940s with the barbaric invasion of Nazi Germany.

Stalin must had known, as anyone in the Soviet government would had known, that the atomic bombs that the USA had dropped did not compel Japan to unconditionally surrender to the USA. Basic logic would only substantiate that. The atomic bombs were dropped on August 6th, 1945 and August 9th,1945. The Soviet Union declared war on Japan on August 9th,1945 and invaded Manchuria (known as Manchuoka back then). When Japan surrendered on August 15th, 1945, the vast majority of Manchuria had already been captured by Soviet forces. A week later, the entire Japanese military (Kwantung Army) surrendered in Manchuria to the Soviet Red Army.

Nagasaki and Hiroshima were in southern Japan. Hiroshima was a good 500 miles south of Tokyo. Nagasaki was 750 miles south of Tokyo. Obviously with 1945 technology, there was no way the Japanese head elites of state and government would had known the true nature of those atomic bomb blasts until a month later. Stalin must had known the preceding. He must had realized that because these two bomb blasts had absolutely no military or political value, there was a more sinister reason why the USA dropped these bombs.

There was no military value in these bombings because no military facility was targeted and Stalin in all likelihood knew this. There was no political value otherwise the US military would have dropped those atom bombs far closer to Japan's capital Tokyo and Stalin probably suspected this as well. Stalin must have realized that Harry Truman, POTUS, did not order these bombings to take place relatively close to Tokyo because that would have much more likely caused the Japanese heads of state and government (Emperor Hirohito and PM/President Hideki Tojo) to surrender to the Soviet Union and not to the USA.

If the rulers of Japan felt and understood the impact of those atomic bombs immediately, there is a very strong chance they would have surrendered to the enemy who was not on the verge of committing a nuclear holocaust against the people of Japan. Stalin must had deduced that Japan would probably not want to surrender to an enemy who had the intent of committing such a nuclear genocide as they have to ultimately answer to the Japanese people.

Due to the fact Stalin probably believed that the USA was willing to use "nukes" on such as casual basis as the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings had no military and political impact, he must have naturally concluded the USA could easily do the same to the USSR on such an aggressive basis. The USA obviously demonstrated they had a low threshold of using such WMDs against one Eastern nation. Stalin must had felt that the USA would do the same against them as well. That is one reason why such harshness was employed in the USSR after World War Two.

Stalin was bracing for a nuclear attack to be launched by the USA. Moreover since Stalin was aware that the USA bombed two southern Japanese cities on such a casual basis, he must had known the US-led Collective West would use the nuclear threat to totally undermine the sovereignty of the USSR. He probably realized they would either try wrest control of the satellite nations of the USSR or would try to even balkanize the USSR itself. Finally he thought the Western Powers would try to overthrow the Communist governments in the USSR and/or satellite nations so that the West could garner control of these communist nations' resources. OPPENHEIMER: Japan's Real Reason For Surrender- Part Four

It is not a paranoid conspiracy theory in explaining why Russia (government and people) are so wary of the intentions of Western Powers. In a post I made a week ago, it explained why Joseph Stalin (Soviet Union dictator) was legitimately worried about the safety of Russia and its government after World War Two. Its titanic war with Germany killed one-seventh of its entire population.

The aftermath left the USSR at the mercy of Western Powers because of its nuclear capabilities and its willingness to use it. Stalin knew that atomic weapons used against Japan had no military or political value for the West. He knew if the USA was willing to use such weaponry on such a casual basis against Japan, the USA-led Western Powers would do the same against the USSR.

Most Westerners do not realize that NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization) was founded by many escaped Nazis and former members of the Wehrmacht (German Army). So obviously the USSR and then Russia will perceive NATO as a neo-Nazi entity and as a practitioner of Nazi ideology. It will not be just the government who holds such viewpoints but mainly it will be people themselves who will have such perceptions. Even after the USSR had undergone the De-Stalinization process for nearly a decade, so many Soviet Union citizens kept portraits, vestiges, and the memory of the Soviet Union strongman ruler.

Read this article and discover why the Soviet Union faced a greater existential threat than the threat they had just experienced in the "Great Patriotic War". Only when the Soviet Union detonated the atomic bomb in 1949 did this threat dissipate. However even well after Stalin's death the nuclear threat against the USSR was revived.

In 1960 the US’ nuclear war plans were formalized in the Single Integrated Operational Plan (SIOP). This would pre-emptively use 3500 atomic warheads to attack USSR’s nuclear forces, military targets, cities, as well as against China and Eastern Europe. This plan would have killed 285-425 million people if implemented. The "satellite nations" in the Soviet orbit would have been totally annihilated. Even after the SIP was modified and restricted, its use would have killed millions of peaceful civilians.

All must read this article as it confirms the contents of this post and my previous post on this topic.