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UnholyMudcrab posted...

The Soviets had agreed at Yalta not to invade the Home Islands. They also very likely weren't capable of launching amphibious operations in the first place without months of training and construction or purchase of the necessary equipment. Their limited operations against Sakhalin and the Kurils were much smaller in scale, and those still gave them a lot of trouble.

Russia was literally planning/preparing for the invasion of Hokkaido when we dropped the nukes.

They were flat out going to invade literally a couple of weeks after the bombs dropped. The US was aware of this and was terrified of it. They knew what we know call the Cold War was coming and both the US and Russia were collecting scientists, land and resources like they were pokemon cards.

I like the fact you're using "It gave them a lot of trouble." as if that was a concern for Joseph Stalin

You forget Manchuria and that Japan had already put out feelers to Russia about a negociated surrender.

You really can't just re-write history. One of the primary goals of the Nukes was to intimidate Russia and attempt to curb their expansions in Europe and Asia.

When Japan surrendered to the US, the concept of Russian influence in Japan pretty much died.

And here we are in 2022 and that's still the case.