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UnfairRepresent posted...

Hell remember that Japan was still fighting when Germany was soundly defeated and we only droped nukes on them at all because we knew Russia was going to take it over.

The Soviets had agreed at Yalta not to invade the Home Islands. They also very likely weren't capable of launching amphibious operations in the first place without months of training and construction or purchase of the necessary equipment. Their limited operations against Sakhalin and the Kurils were much smaller in scale, and those still gave them a lot of trouble.