Concerned that America’s development and use of atomic weapons against Japan would deprive the Soviet Union of any territorial gains in the east, Stalin ordered the Red Army to invade. But Japan, having already endured the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, had accepted the Potsdam Declaration on August 14, meaning that the war was already over when the Red Army marched in.
由于担心美国开发和对日本动用原子弹将导致苏联在东线获得领土尽失，斯大林下令红军入侵。但已在广岛和长崎经历了两次原子弹轰炸的日本在8月14日接受了波茨坦公告，这意味着在红军开进时，战争已经结束了。