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️<unk>️<unk>️<unk>️<unk>️<unk>️<unk>️<unk>️ The massive Red Army steamrolled into Manchuria, brushing aside scattered Japanese resistance, and they liberated Mengjiang (Inner Mongolia), southern Sakhalin, and the northern half of the Korean peninsula as well.<unk> The massive Red Army steamrolled into Manchuria, brushing aside scattered Japanese resistance, and they liberated Mengjiang (Inner Mongolia), southern Sakhalin, and the northern half of the Korean peninsula as well. The rapid defeat of the Kwantung Army in Manchuria, along with the recent atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki by the Americans, contributed significantly to the Japanese surrender on the 15th.<unk> The rapid defeat of the Kwantung Army in Manchuria, along with the recent atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki by the Americans, contributed significantly to the Japanese surrender on the 15th.