Ka kammala wannan magana: Da aka ci Jamus, Stalin ya mai da hankali ga yaƙi da Japan, ya tura sojoji rabin miliyan zuwa Gabas ta Tsakiya. Stalin ya matsa wa abokansa su shiga yaki kuma yana so ya tabbatar da matsayin Soviet Union a Asiya. A ranar 8 ga watan Agusta, tsakanin bama-baman nukiliya na Amurka a Hiroshima da Nagasaki, sojojin Soviet
Ya mamaye Manchuria da Japan ta mamaye kuma ya ci Kwantung Army. Wadannan abubuwan da suka faru sun kai ga Japan ta mika wuya da kuma karshen yakin. Sojojin Soviet sun ci gaba da fadadawa har sai sun mamaye duk yankunansu, amma Amurka ta ƙi sha'awar Stalin ga Red Army don taka rawa a cikin Allied occupation of Japan.