The Federal Security Service has for the first time declassified documents showing Japan's preparation for war with the USSR, reports RIA Novosti.
From the archives, it appears that Japan started these actions in 1938 … In particular, among the documents there is Order No. 70 to units of the 3rd Army, which was based in Manchuria on the border with the USSR. The order was issued on August 9, 1938, at that time there was a Soviet-Japanese military conflict near Lake Khasan.
The FSB declassified the interrogation protocol of the latter Commander-in-Chief of the Kwantung Army, Otozo Yamada, during which he admitted that Order No. 70 “” indicates increased readiness for war “; with the Soviet Union.
On August 9, 1945, the USSR entered the war against Japan, which at the time was an ally of Nazi Germany and aided the Nazis in the war against the Soviet Union and its partners in the anti-Hitler coalition. On September 2, 1945, the Japanese government signed the Act of Surrender, which signified the end of World War II.