EARLY EPISODE: Operation August Storm
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In 1945, after the nuclear weapons were already dropped, the Soviet Union entered the war against Japan. A front of the war the Japanese believed would hold on for years, crumbled in only a few weeks all in the middle of a cloud of confusion, various orders to surrender from the Emperor, and more than one ignored ceasefire.
SOURCES:
Glantz (February 1983), "August Storm: The Soviet 1945 Strategic Offensive in Manchuria". Leavenworth Papers No. 7, Combat Studies Institute, Fort Leavenworth Kansas.
Nathan N. Prefer. The Soviet Invasion of Manchuria led to Japan’s Greatest Defeat. WWII Quarterly. Vol 9, No. 3.
Tillman, Barrett. When the Shooting Stopped: August 1945. Bloomsbury Publishing.
Boris Nikolaevich Slavinskiĭ, The Japanese-Soviet Neutrality Pact: A Diplomatic History 1941–1945, Translated by Geoffrey Jukes
Stephenson, Charles. Stalin’s War on Japan: The Red Army’s Manchurian Strategic Offensive Operation, 1945
Comments (44)
Gotta feel bad for the Soviet Union, they always seem to be stumbling on most the worst shit of the other side (almost all the death camps, and unit 731 headquarters)
Like a police chase in an 80s movie
I've never owned a gun, and don't like them much in person, but Battlefield 1 DEFINITELY made me nostalgic for Martini Henry rifles.
Operation Uranus tho
They could have used the Bob Semple...
Nate’s wife might be on to something. The only person to gush to me about Crash is now deep in the trump cult.
Hey Joe I appreciate the reference, but a "Tactical Shrek Movement" could mean a lot of different things. Could you be more specific about this please?
It’s wild that you posted this the exact week my course on WW2 in the Asian Pacific started “Racing the Enemy: Stalin, Truman, and the surrender of Japan”.
yo I’ve heard of, had, and been a ride-or-die partner, but that’s ride AND die
Okay well I just cackled through the whole cycling story so thank you
the Gobi desert is literally the closest you can get to being on Antarctica while still being on any of the other continents, it’s fucking insane
there’s a fair bit of utility to the SKS, especially one of the later production Yugoslavian ones, because they had night-sights, a folding bayonet, and a rifle- grenade port built into them. however the folding bayonet and R-G port are mainly useful because they allow soldiers to easily stick their rifle into the grass while resting without worrying about blocking the muzzle, which is much easier at night. also yeah the only reason you need to do that as much as you do is because they’re heavy as absolute fuck.
literally if we’d kept the conscription terms at four years after the war instead of lowering them to two, Красного Мира would be an extant reality at the moment.
Sounds like Philly. Every three blocks the side of the street the lane is on switches.
The entire end of WW2 really feels like everyone ganging up to kick a man whose already bleeding on the ground. He sort of deserves it, but perhaps not all of it.
I think Mosins are everyone's favorite because of MGS
Counterpoint to interesting Swiss and Japanese firearms: I yearn for affordable silly Warsaw Pact/ Soviet shit :). Makes for much more affordable collecting SKS's, Mosins, and other various boom-sticks (boys just wanna camp in the woods with 15,000 of their homies nothing can go wrong)
Zoidberg_why_not_both(dot)bmp
I feel like the modern day equivalent for the tankette is the MRAP in that it's supposed to be cheap but somehow functionally what amounted to transport and fire support rolled into one. Obviously they never really did either of these things.
Alternatively, that M113 with the recoilless rifle that existed for a time in the Cold War
Completely misread this title and could not figure out how Saddam factored in with all this Japanese stuff.
Nate - A sweatshirt? In September? *cries in Texan*
WARNING: I have a migraine at the moment so I'm a bit loopy with drugs. HOWEVER. As I'm sure I have mentioned i'm a food historian. Does someone who knows more about Korean food know when they adopted "burn your mouth off" levels of heat and spicy food? Because throughout the Imjin War series I was reflecting on how different Korean and Japanese food is, and I can't help wondering if the insane levels of heat in a lot of Korean food are a massive FUCK YOU to Japan.
“Tent Indianapolis, population 1 million” is just just the Speedway neighborhood during the Indy 500 weekend. Or the state fair.
I did have an sks, it was 200 nzd so i said why not
My dad grew up in Manchuria right around the time the war ended and according to him the Russians were slightly better than the Koreans (Japan used soldiers and cops with Korean to police Manchuria). When they left the only thing that wasn't taken away was structural materials. Mfers even stripped every single nail they could pull out of buildings.
When he was in border troops in the late 60s, he was stationed what was according to him "a Japanese pillbox" because the building had firing points all over, a meter of reinforced concrete and was burned inside out with the entrance blown off. Years later I was browsing through books in a Japanese middle school library and happened across a memoir of a Japanese soldier who escaped from Manchuria. He was stationed in the same area and had drawn an impression of what the Japanese defense had looked like. Turned out there was a town right up against the border, and my dad's "bunker" was a Japanese Alamo built into the local sugar refinery. When the war broke out, the local administrator killed all the Chinese workers, sent the military to a nearby fortress, gathered all the Japanese civilians in the Alamo, locked the door, and told them all to commit suicide. My dad had no recollections of a small town or even ruins around his fortification. He was quite amused when I showed him a picture of the map.
Help I'm stuck in the steppe mud
Mosins are to gun people what Danelectros are to guitar people. They're cheap junk that worked when legendary people just needed something to work. We hope we will find a sliver of that greatness despite a better, even cheaper, option for every job you can name
I hand-picked a lovely M44 at my previous place of employment and it's still one of the prettiest rifles I've found!
Pro tip, if you say “muttonbusting” around Kash Patel you immediately get appointed as an FBI special agent.
Joe is so chill. I feel like the bike horse poop story is one 'Falling Down's'-worth of people being in the way at the worst possible time for a lot of people.
I highly suggest watching the YouTuber Shaun's video on the relationship between the nukes and Japan surrendering. The whole situation is way more complex than the usual narrative claims, and the video ultimately comes out on the side that the nukes were completely unnecessary, and were in fact just a pointless war crime. Japan was going to surrender, and the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki did not speed up that process. The loss of two more cites didn't matter that much to the Japanese high command when plenty more had already been destroyed through traditional bombing and firebombing. https://youtu.be/RCRTgtpC-Go?is=ZpYBpdKDl6wo2Nu7
Sow the wind, reap the nuke.
"I was never down with the Jugalettes." - Joe Kassabian
Reading the comments during the intro is telling me this is gonna be one I need to buckle up for.
Akira sliding bc of horseshit and slamming into a pole to avoid smashing into othe people. This is why I listen to LLBD
Joe almost got killed via slapstick shenanigans.
literally, the horses can always get you, you live at their mercy and/or caprice
I cycle in Berlin every day. Ive gone from when I first moved here thinking how amazing the cycle infrastructure was, to now thinking people are trying to kill me. Like drivers and other cyclists!!!
I do think its fascinating that imperial Japan had to basically surrender twice, once for the military and once for the civilian populace. I do think its interesting how the surrender announcements are worded depending on their audience, because for a military audience "Oh another city got vaporized, add it to the list" whereas for the civilian audience "Oh we are getting our ass kicked on another front, add it to the list"
It's light weight poetic really. Imperial Japan was a lot of things, I think it is safe to say they where stubborn. So much so they had to surrender twice.
" what are all these russian facists and one very racist cossack warlord doing here ? " ( paradrops an entire divsion on their head in dailan )
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