On August 8, 1945, the Soviet Union officially declared war on
Japan, pouring more than 1 million Soviet soldiers the following
day into Japanese-occupied Manchuria, northeastern China, to
take on the 700,000-strong Japanese army.
Despite a strong Japanese army comprised of a million men
awaiting them, the Soviet force, under command of Marshal
Alexander Vasilevsky, swept into China, Korea and the Kuril
Islands, forcing a rapid retreat.
By the end of the engagement, the Soviets had only lost around
8,000 troops compared to the 80,000 lost by Japan.
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