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ATTENTION: This material is created for educational purposes and represents a historical investigation based on documented facts, archival sources, and the work of professional historians. All value judgments in the video are historical analysis, not political statements. Where facts allow for different interpretations, this is clearly stated in the text. The author does not equate wartime government decisions with the moral judgments of the peoples of these countries. The history of the USSR, Japan, and their relations is a complex, multilayered topic that cannot be reduced to a single video and does not allow for simple conclusions. If you are a professional historian and believe that any fact is presented inaccurately, please write in the comments. Serious, reasoned criticism is welcome. LISTING FOR REFERENCES AND SOURCES: Archival documents Lozovsky, S.A., Secret note to I.V. Stalin on the Soviet-Japanese Neutrality Pact. January 15, 1945. USSR People's Commissariat of Foreign Affairs Archive. Cited in: Slavinsky, B.N. The Neutrality Pact between the USSR and Japan: Diplomatic History, 1941–1945. Moscow, 1995. Transcript of the 36th Meeting of the Coordinating Council of the Government and Imperial Headquarters of Japan. June 30, 1941. Cited in: Koshkin, A.A. The Soviet-Japanese Neutrality Pact and its Impact on the Course of World War II. REGNUM News Agency, 2019. The Yalta Secret Agreement on the Far East. February 11, 1945. Published in: The Soviet Union at International Conferences during the Great Patriotic War. — Moscow: Politizdat, 1984. Monographs and Research Papers Slavinsky, B.N. The Neutrality Pact between the USSR and Japan: A Diplomatic History, 1941–1945. — Moscow: Novina Ltd., 1995. A seminal work on the topic. The author is the first to introduce a number of NKID archival documents, including Lozovsky's note, into scholarly circulation. Koshkin, A.A. Marshal Stalin's Japanese Front. Russia and Japan: The Century-Long Shadow of Tsushima. — Moscow: Olma-Press, 2004. A detailed analysis of Soviet-Japanese relations from 1941–1945, based on declassified documents. Koshkin, A.A. The Collapse of the "Ripe Persimmon" Strategy. Japan's Military Policy Toward the USSR, 1931–1945. — Moscow: Mysl, 1989. Analysis of Japanese strategy in the northern direction, including Operation Kantokuen. Chuikov, V. I., Mission to China. — Moscow: Voenizdat, 1983. Memoirs of a Soviet military adviser who personally supervised aid to China in 1941–1942. Publications in scientific journals Koshkin, A. A., In the summer of 1941, Japan was deciding how and when to attack the USSR. — REGNUM News Agency, July 3, 2019. Analysis of transcripts of Japanese government meetings from June–July 1941. Soviet-Chinese cooperation in the fight against Japanese militarism, 1937–1945. — Russian Historical Society, "History of the Fatherland" portal. The Soviet-Japanese War of 1945: the Neutrality Pact and its Renunciation. — Chita.ru, August 6, 2021. Reference and Encyclopedic Sources The Neutrality Pact between the USSR and Japan. — Wikipedia / Ruwiki. Version with notes and links to primary sources. The Soviet-Japanese Neutrality Pact of 1941 — NOO-journal (noo-journal.ru). The Yalta Conference of 1945. — Ivanovo State Polytechnical University, section "Victory". Media and Authoritative Media Sources The Soviet-Japanese Neutrality Pact: How Stalin Outsmarted the Emperor of Japan. — Komsomolskaya Pravda, April 13, 2021. How China and the USSR Supported Each Other During World War II. — Rossiyskaya Gazeta, 2015. Neutrality Pact between the USSR and Japan. — RIA Novosti, April 13, 2016. On August 8, 1945, secret documents were burned at the Soviet embassy in Tokyo. — Rodina Magazine, August 9, 2021.