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Oppenheimer to finally be released in Japan after ‘Barbenheimer’ backlash (www.theguardian.com)

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Internet references conflating the two films drew anger in Japan, which was twice attacked by nuclear weapons during the second world war

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

So maybe the USSR wasn't prepared for the scale of a naval mainland invasion, but given the Japanese losses in Manchuria, it certainly seems they at least had the manpower in the region. It's not like the Red Army had to march all the way from Berlin to Vladivostok.

Speaking purely from the standpoint of a mainland invasion, which is what the US was trying to avoid, and the USSR could not have undertaken, in order to force a Japanese surrender. They were in a serious position to invade Manchuria (and did), but that's not Japan so much as the Chinese puppet state of Japan.