>>512205364 (OP)
It was the better outcome, gruesome as it may have been >don't use nukes >sovietals invade and start raping and pillaging >japan becomes another commie hellhole, loses all of its culture and history >probably has a horrific civil war and ends up split in two like korea
>>512205364 (OP)
Japan and the Soviet Union had a mutual non-aggression pact, and Japan approached the Soviet Union to mediate its surrender.
The United States knew about this and dropped the atomic bombs.
>>512206328
Exact opposite.
Rusdia repudiated the treaty by entering Korea and Manchuria. A few days later they surrendered. During those few days, the bombs dropped to convince them to surrender to us and to scare the fuck out of Stalin so he would stop invading everywhere with his fuckhuge army.