Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - Da Jamus ta ci nasara, Stalin ya mayar da hankali ga yaki da Japan, ya tura dakarun 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 nukiliyar Amurka da Hiroshima da Nagasaki, sojojin Soviet sun mamaye Manchuria da Japan ta mamaye
kuma ya kayar da 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.