Russia regrets that Japan has not yet recognized the current historical reality around the causes and results of the Second World War. With the conviction of Tokyo’s position on behalf of the Russian state, the representative of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation Maria Zakharov was made. Her words sounded at a briefing, the broadcast of which was carried out on the Youtube channel RT.
According to her, the Soviet Union played a key role in the defeat of the Militarist Japan, defeating the Kwantung army in Manchuria, as well as Japanese parts and connections on the island of Sakhalin and the Kuril Islands. She recalled that the results of the fight of the USSR and allies against Japan are enshrined in the act of surrender of September 2, 1945 and in the Charter of the United Nations.
September 2, to the 76th anniversary of the surrender of the Imperial Japan in World War II, the Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation published documents in which mass atrocities of Japanese occupiers are covered against Soviet citizens in Manchuria. The document provides data on 43 declined Soviet citizens who worked on the construction of the Sino-Eastern Railway and lived in Highlar.