Steelhead wrote:
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...neither did the soviets declare war against Japan until they new they would win after both atomic bombs ask yourself why neither side went to war with each other until the very end.
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At Yalta, Stalin undertook to declare war on Japan three months after the defeat of Germany which would have been 8 August 1945. As it was they declared war at midnight on the 8th, almost 12-hours before Fat Man fell on Nagasaki and less than two days after Little Boy detonated over Hiroshima. However, combat operations by the Red Army preceded the official declaration of war in some sectors of the front by several hours.
Being as how the Soviets had assembled in Mongolia, Ussuri and Amur provinces north of Manchuria and in Maritime Province well over one and a half million combat troops, 26,000 guns, 5500 tanks and about 3800 combat aircraft, it's a pretty good bet nukes had very little to do with the Soviet Union coming in when they did. The evidence indicates that the Bomb was coincidental rather than causal to Russia's attack on Japan.
Other than that minor peccadillo, agree 100%.
Edited to correct date error