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How the Soviets blitzed Japan in WW2

In August 1945, the Soviet Union launched a massive and largely forgotten offensive into Japanese-occupied Manchuria. Known as Operation August Storm, the campaign saw over a million Soviet troops ...
Eighty years ago, on August 6, 1945, a city woke up to a regular morning -- and was turned into dust within seconds. Hiroshima, Japan, became the first place in the world to be attacked with an atomic ...