A gentle gust of wind awakens the body that has been sleeping for a thousand years; a gentle gust of wind blows away the mysterious veil of history. Standing on the shoulders of time, I talk to history.
Good and evil will eventually be rewarded, and the heavenly path is good for reincarnation. Look up in disbelief, the heavens have spared no one.
At noon on August 15, 1945, Hirohito published the Edict of the End of the War by radio, announcing unconditional surrender. Their surrender also meant that the Second World War ended in the victory of the Allies, and the truth that justice must triumph over the mighty has finally been proved. On the day of Japan's surrender, the Soviet Union did something, and Hirohito was very angry about it, but there was no way to do it, and had to endure.
This incident is actually a robbery, the cause of which is a place called the Kuril Islands, which is located between the Kamchatka Peninsula in russia's Far East and the Japanese island of Hokkaido, which separates the western Pacific Ocean from the Sea of Okhotsk. It is made up of 56 islands with a total length of 1300 kilometers, and now belongs to Russia's Sakhalin Oblast, but not before World War II. The Kuril Islands are a natural barrier in the southeastern part of the Sea of Okhotsk and a major maritime route, and their strategic location is naturally very important.
As a result, there was a quarrel between Japan and former Russia, and the struggle between them began in the earlier 18th century. In the 24th to 27th years of the Qing Kangxi Dynasty (1685-1688), the Battle of Yaksa broke out between the Qing court and Tsarist Russia, and the result was that the Qing court won. Therefore, the Tsarist Russia stopped encroaching on the Heilongjiang River Basin and turned to the northeast to encroach on the Kamchatka Peninsula. In 1697, the Russian army found the Japanese on the island that had been fished out of the sea by the local natives three years earlier, and sent them to Moscow.
Peter I learned a lot about Japan from him and left him in Tsarist Russia to open a Japanese language school. For more than two decades, the Russians again acquired more than 10 Japanese from the Kamchatka Peninsula, thus learning about the Kuril Islands. In April 1713, the Russian soldier Kozlevsky invaded the Kuril Islands and snatched a lot of supplies. From here, the two sides opened the prelude to the island robbery, which was unsuccessful for a hundred years.
In 1855, the two sides decided to sit down and negotiate peace, with the south to Japan and the north to Russia. At that time, many Japanese scholars thought that the dispute could be stopped here, but in fact it did not. Because by this time, the Qing court had reached the end of the road, and the two sides secretly began to compete for Sakhalin Island. In 1875, the two countries decided to exchange sakhalin islands, which Japan had acquired, for the northern Kuril Islands, which Russia had acquired. Getting one piece of fat did not mean giving up another, and in 1905 war broke out between the two sides and Russia lost.
Where do those who have lost the war still have the right to speak? Southern Sakhalin was recaptured, and Japan also received most of Russia's interests in the Far East. Russia, on the other hand, has been holding its breath, and the first thing to do after ending the war with Germany is to settle accounts with Japan, which has not yet surrendered. On August 8, 1945, the Soviet Union declared war on Japan and surrounded the Kwantung Army. After Hirohito announced his surrender, Okamura refused to accept it, so the Soviets issued a statement the next day saying that they had not actually surrendered and would therefore continue fighting.
Of course, because the Japanese death squads were dispatched, the Soviet Union still suffered some casualties. However, the harvest was considerable, and the invasion of the northeast allowed it to obtain the southern part of Sakhalin Island, which was lost in 1905, and also snatched the Kuril Islands. Hirohito didn't want to admit it, and he wouldn't admit it, but what could he do? As mentioned earlier, those who were defeated in the war had no right to speak, and Hirohito did not stand up and declare it at that time, and later asked for return without success.
The two sides have been pulling until today, and the contradiction is born. Unlike the 18th and 19th centuries, the four main contradictions at this time are the ownership of the four regions of Kunashir, Iturup, Schkotan and The Hebamay Islands. For these four places, they each have a different name, known in Japan as the Northern Four Islands and Russia as the South Kuril Islands. Now it seems that who can laugh to the end, I am afraid it will have to wait and see.