© Sputnik / GeorgyJapanese airplanes at an airfield during World War Two.
The Japanese Army planned to invade the USSR and seize vast swaths of Siberian territory during World War II, newly declassified information published by Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB) revealed on Thursday.
The release of the previously unknown information is timed to coincide with the 73rd anniversary of the completion of the Tokyo trial, the International Military Tribunal for the Far East held from 1946 to 1948, which determined the fate of the central Japanese war criminals.
© WikimediaKyoji Tominaga, Lieutenant Colonel, Imperial Japanese Army
According to the FSB, information about an attack on the USSR came from several interviews with captured Japanese officials and officers, including Kyoji Tominaga, the former Japanese deputy minister of war. Tominaga was a prisoner of war in Russia and was interrogated by SMERSH, the Soviet Union's military counterintelligence agency.
Tominaga revealed to agents that Japanese troops were to attack Primorye, the part of Russia closest to the 'Land of the Rising Sun'.
"After the occupation of the Vladivostok Plain by these troops, according to the plan developed by me, the Northern Front was to launch an offensive consisting of seven divisions, an artillery brigade, and other special units," the prisoner of war said.
SMERSH also managed to arrest and interrogate a handful of other Japanese officials and servicemen, including a colonel named Saburo Asada. In Asada's interrogation, he testified that Tokyo had planned "bacteriological sabotage" against the Red Army.
"[They] testified that the Japanese government had been preparing a war against the Soviet Union for many years," Colonel-General Viktor Abakumov, the head of SMERSH, wrote in a memorandum to the Soviet government on February 13, 1946. "The Japanese General Staff developed its own plan of attack on the USSR, similar to
Barbarossa, with the code name
Kantokuen."
The Soviet-Japanese war ended in September 1945, a few months after the surrender of Nazi Germany. It ended in a victory for the USSR and its ally Mongolia. As a result, the Soviet Union took control of the South Sakhalin and the Kuril Islands. It took another 11 years for the two countries to agree to formally end the conflict but, as of today, they have still not resolved the dispute over territories that are now in Russia's possession.
Reader Comments
But I love Japanese ww2 planes - snazzy picture !
RC
Japanese planes are not my field of expertise. I know however, there are familiar names (Mitsubishi), and they cooperated with the Third Reich.According to my knowledge, the German U-Boot that brought several hundred pounds of refined UF6 and the German expert for infrared igniter to the US also had Me262 drawings on board (destined for Japan). And two Japanese officers who commited suicide when the German crew "surrendered" to the US Navy.
RC
In exchange for their nuclear weapons materials + knowledge, jet technology and other stuff, certain Nazis got free passage to South America.
Or does anyone believe they escaped a siege with a circumvallation of hundreds of miles by two huge armies all on their own ?!?!?
RC
R.C.
kill shotvaxx ratio. I am prepared. I just wait for my employer's reaction, who acted as a willingfascistgovernment sidekick up to now. After an "incident" in my company last week, I was able to increase my personal "anti-vaxxer" network a bit ...By the way - R.C., are there any news or report about "possible blackouts to come" in the US ?
Such "news" become more frequent here. Not sure if they talk about a real (uncontrollable) solar event, or a controlled IT shutdown, or some war-like incident and EMP.
There are old rumors about the TPM modules in modern processors, they might not only be good for DRM shit ...
RC
But as I said, there are rumors the TPM units contains suicide code + hardware to "fry" the processor upon a trigger. And since hardly any IT device has a real off switch anymore, almost all would be affected. A controlled suicide of of the IT structure, in manageable blocks/countries, I suppose. And we would not be able to distinguish it from an EMP or a natural event.
It would be " T rusted P rocessing M odule". A special unit shielded from the main processor which runs your normal application, mostly protected from them, but with supervisor rights. Surveillance within your PC.
RC
I had been keenly following the developments in the PC sector for some while, but gradually lost any interest. I guess for about a decade I only pick up what comes along my way. Boring and irrelevant for my life.
Not to mention, all my company's IT equipment I work most of the time is just rented, and remotely administered and monitored.
RC
1. They continue with their narrative and succeed implementing their long term plan.
2. The wheels start to fall off the covid juggernaut and the truth is exposed.
Both are in full swing at the moment, but juggernauts rely on wheels and scepticism is deflating that which keeps this torrid vehicle going.
NEVER loose HOPE.