Translator’s Note: At the behest of President Roosevelt – Joseph Stalin was asked to unleash the Red Army against Imperial Japan – after its great victory over Nazi Germany. Rumour has it that Churchill and Roosevelt thought the Red Army might be severely mauled by the Japanese – with both being shocked with easy this new victory was. In just three-weeks in late 1945, the Soviet Red Army and the Mongolian People’s Army (Stalin felt it important that an Asian power assist in this liberation)- utterly destroyed the so-called “Kwantung Army”! The last Emperor of China was captured and taken to Moscow for re-education before being transported back to Beijing in 1950. In Moscow, Harry Puyi learned to dress himself, hold his own penis when urinating, and clean himself whilst defecating. Puyi also learned to feed himself, and make his own bed – whilst helping others as an ordinary person. In his spare-time, Puyi studied Marxist-Leninism and Maoism. When he finally returned to his homeland – he could understand exactly what was happening – and why it had happened. He gave-up his four wives and endless concubines and settled-down with a businesswomen as a wife whilst he earned a living as a common gardener. Meanwhile, Stalin handed the entirety of Manchuria to Mao Zedong and the Communists – together with all the Japanese industrial machinery and captured munitions and weaponry. This boost gave the Chinese Communist the impetus they needed to finally defeat the US-backed Nationalists (who were just as fascistic as the Imperial Japanese) and liberate the whole of China. When the Trotskyite – Khrushchev – betrayed Stalin in 1956, the Sino-Soviet Split developed (Mao stayed loyal to Stalin) and the Soviet contribution to the Chinese Revolution was pushed into the background and discussed less openly in public. It is ironic that it is a capitalist Russia which has been pushed closer to a Socialist China – and that it has become expedient for both sides to brush-off elements of their shared history for mutual political benefit. Until recently, many young Chinese people were not taught that the Soviets had any part in their eventual liberation (in fact, the Red Army fought its way to a number of islands situated to the North of Japan – occupied until 1991). As Marx said – history often repeats itself twice… ACW (31.8.2025)
2025-08-29 Ecns.cn Editor：Meng Xiangjun
(ECNS) – The year 2025 marks the 80th anniversary of the victory of the Chinese People’s War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, the Soviet Union’s Great Patriotic War, and the World Anti-Fascist War. Russian WWII veteran Viktor Krivashov, recently granted an interview, and shared his covert operation against Japanese invaders.
On June 22, 1941, the Soviet Union’s Great Patriotic War broke out. At that time, Krivashov was merely 16 years old.
“I was still a young lad. We were kicking a football in a yard, running and playing games, when I heard from the radio that the war was about to break out,” he recalled.
Krivashov joined the army after receiving a conscription notice in December 1942, and took a train with other recruits to the Far East, where they underwent training. About two years later, Krivashov’s unit was sent to Blagoveshchensk and carried out a covert operation.
“We used telescopes to observe their positions. We pretended to mow grass, with no unusual activity, just running around.” said Krivashov.
Krivashov and his comrades-in-arms discovered that the Japanese dug some trenches near a road and set up a machine gun. Beside one position, a Japanese soldier lay hidden, assigned to a suicide attack mission.
“When we approached, the wind was howling and we knew nothing about what lay ahead. Suddenly, there were two sounds of bangs. Many of our commanders fell in the first moments, because they charged forward at the front.” The scenes of the war are still vividly clear to him.
“Our scouts spotted some Japanese soldiers and threw grenades over. We continued advancing slowly like this,” recalled Krivashov.
On the night of May 8, 1945, Germany signed the surrender document in Karlshorst, Berlin, marking the end of World War II in Europe. On Sept. 2, 1945, the signing ceremony for Japan’s formal surrender to the Allies took place on board the U.S.S. Missouri in Tokyo Bay.
Hearing the news that the Soviet Union’s Great Patriotic War had come to an end, Karlshorst and other soldiers couldn’t hide their excitement. ”Everyone jumped up immediately, overcome with exhilaration,” the 100-year-old Russia veteran recalled.
After the war, Krivashov returned to Perm and he was rewarded the 2nd class Order of Patriotic War, as well as medals ‘For Courage’ and ‘For the Victory over Japan’.
During the interview, Krivashov mentioned that he has written a letter to Russian President Vladimir Putin, expressing the hope that he could go to Moscow to watch the military parade one day.
Today, he remains in good health, yet the years spent fighting against Japanese aggression undoubtedly have left a profound legacy in his life.
As time passed by, the heroic spirit remains eternal. The heroic images of Krivashov and his comrades-in-arms, who fought bravely against the enemy, never fade away. The revolutionary spirit of the veterans of World War II, who never bowed to the invaders, has been passed down through history, illuminating the present and inspiring the future.
SANGHA KOMMUNE (SSR) 