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[JAMESBJOHNSON]

Oh, so you're adding government control of the media to your long list of inane beliefs?

I like diversity.

 

[Boxlicker101]

The reverse would also be a valid possibility. If the collapse of Japan hadn't been forced by the bombing and Russia just sat back and let the U.S. move onto the islands like they did elsewhere, Russia wouldn't have had any part of an annexation. They had to actually move troops there and seize territory, and the whole reason they hadn't declared war on Japan already was that they weren't able to sustain fighting on that front--and getting to Japan to even get into the fighting.

I don't really think there was much of threat that Russia was going to be in on annexation of the Japanese islands.

But they did annex part of the Japanese Empire. They took the Kurile Islands and the southern half of Sakhalin Island, which was called Karafuto. These were territories taken by Japan from Russia in the Russo-Japanese War in 1904/05. In addition to that, they were given influence in the northern half of the Korean Peninsula.

 

[sr71plt]

But they did annex part of the Japanese Empire. They took the Kurile Islands and the southern half of Sakhalin Island, which was called Karafuto. These were territories taken by Japan from Russia in the Russo-Japanese War in 1904/05. In addition to that, they were given influence in the northern half of the Korean Peninsula.

They weren't the Japanese mainland and they were right there next to Russia. *shrug*

The only time before that the Russians tried to cross the water to invade the Japanese mainland, they lost their entire Pacific feet. At the end of WWII I'll bet they didn't have much more than a tug boat to send in the direction either.