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   From: muratlanne@gmail.com   
      
   "Byker"  wrote in message   
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   "a425couple"  wrote in message news:rvrrfa01v84@news4.newsguy.com...   
      
   On 2/7/2021 12:51 PM, Byker wrote:   
   > "a425couple"  wrote in message news:rvn8gl01j6p@news4.newsguy.com...   
   >>   
   >> They surrendered because the Soviets were on the brink of invading   
   >> Hokkaido.   
   >>   
   >> Hirohito knew that there would be no place for a god-emperor in a   
   >> Soviet-subjugated society...   
   >   
   > As to your "Hirohito knew", sorry, but he really didn't   
   > know much about that Russian invasion AT THE TIME   
   > he interrupted the War Cabinet meeting to tell them   
   > he wanted Japan to surrender.   
   >   
   > The Russian invasion had just started, and very little   
   > was known about it in Tokyo, and very little had been   
   > said about it in the War Cabinet meeting.   
      
   But those "in the know" KNEW...   
   ----------------   
   They knew that the Soviets possessed nothing faintly resembling the US Navy   
   to support an invasion against the world's most experienced and skilled   
   defenders.   
      
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