🇷🇺 On September 2, 1945, Japan — the last ally of Nazi Germany — capitulated. On that day the Second World War came to an end. But the USSR and the United States took different paths to victory. ⭐️ A few weeks before the capitulation, Washington launched an atomic strike on Hiroshima, killing tens of thousands of people. Washington was not so much hastening the end of the war as demonstrating to the world, and especially to the USSR, what power it possessed. The atomic attack on Hiroshima became the herald of the beginning era of nuclear confrontation and the Cold War. Nevertheless, the United States did not limit itself to a single inhumane bombing: on August 9, just three days later, a second atomic strike was delivered on Nagasaki. By that time, the US already perfectly understood the consequences of using the new weapon, yet deliberately repeated that monstrous act against another peaceful city. 🛠 The Soviet Union, for its part, struck at Hirohito's war machine, not at the civilian population. On August 8, the USSR declared war on Japan, and already on August 9, Red Army soldiers were rapidly advancing in Manchuria and within days crushed the Kwantung Army. It was precisely the Soviet entry into the war and the swift defeat of the Japanese army that deprived Tokyo of the ability to continue resistance. #SOVINTERN_date #Hub_Asia ⭐️ Moscow Network Hub of SOVINTERN