I know where this is coming from since I’ve read a 70s Soviet encyclopedia version of WWII where they claim Russia won the war.
I’ve seen recent articles from American academics that claimed the A-bomb didn’t end the war, but the intervention of the USSR that led to Japan’s surrender.
The Russian movies about WWII, included scenes that the British and Americans were working with the Nazis behind the scenes to undercut the Soviet Union.
Some of the most massive battles of WWII were fought on the Russian front. Battles most people in the West never heard of, like the battle of Kursk.
The formal surrender of Nazi Germany on May 8, 1945, followed by the announcement of Japan’s surrender on August 15, 1945.
A very mean and lean 6’3” 200# of muscle, relative volunteered for our Army, when WWII was ending in Germany.
He became an MP with a specialty of neutralizing our former enemies and getting them to talk and turn others into the MP’s.
He spoke German and was a second generation German American. His Dad fought his German cousins in WWI, and in WWII, he turned many of his American German relatives into the FBI when they/we declared war on each other.
He did his job so well in post war, Berlin, he was sent to Japan when that war was over. Besides his general dislike of our enemies, he was a historian. He knew the hatred the Japanese and Chinese had for each other.
He found out the best way to get info from Japanese prisoners and their family members, post WWII.
Was telling them, that their families, that they would be sent to China for their war crimes and against the Chinese people. If they didn’t cooperate with the MPs.
That worked in most instances.