Battlefield - Manchuria: The Forgotten Victory - Part 2 

The Soviets blitzkrieg Manchuria. This is so underrated in most documentaries that I've seen. That was a pretty kickass offensive!

Technically the Soviets won world war 2 from the battle of Berlin to the battlefields of Manchuria.

When you level up against the Germans and then take on the Japanese tutorial army.

My grandfather fought in the Soviet-Mongolian Mechanized Cavalry as a communications officer.

Interesting particularly on two points firstly the Soviets have been presented as evil in the west however in this instance they liberated the Chinese then withdrew. Secondly the Japanese seemed to surrender in the thousands to the Soviets while they were supposedly very reluctant to surrender to western forces in the Pacific.

Its shocking how badly the Russkies curb stomped the Japanese in Manchuria. and few people realize Vasilievskys talent

This is an excellent documentary on several levels; the fact that it covers this rather obscure but massively important campaign really speaks to the intelligence of the authors.

To move that many men and that much material incredible!! The bear on the move.

The Soviet Army was the most powerful fighting force in the world at that time. And these were the armed forces of the Soviet Union before the betrayal by a cadre of traitors in the United States gave the Soviets the atomic bomb.

Amazing how the Japanese didn't recon or scout around the borders. No way this many men and material goes unnoticed, but here we are.

Finally, maybe the japanese emperor decided to capitulate on 15th of August 1945, more to avoid Soviet invasion of Japan than because of the two atomics bombs of Hiroshima and Nagasaki....

An excellent two part series. Thank you

Manchuria sounds much better than Dong Bei. The war museum in Harbin is well worth a visit. Great to visit places you read about as a child.

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Malinovsky was a true badass

See, the Soviets are good people too.

Really interesting video

The movie The Last Emperor was quite accurate about the history. The Japanese Kwan Dong army invaded China North East in 1931. Then they moved Pu Yi there and created The State of Manchuria. Before that Manchuria did not exist on the map. Only Hitler and Musolini acknowledged the existence of the new state. Other countries claimed it illegitimate. Why Pu YI? Because the Qing Dynasty was created after wars between people from the North East with the Ming Dynasty in Beijing. Qing people only had a short history of prosperity in China. Before that 3000 years of kingdoms were largely people from the middle like Xi'An and Beijing. Therefore the Japanese had the excuse to conveniently sent Pu Yi home to be king and make it a puppet state. The North East was rich in coal, iron mines, and rice. Actually it had oil too but they didn't know it at that time. They did the same to Korea since 1905 after winning the war with Russia as well as a bunch of nations at the beginning of the Pacific War.

*Even if I really and honestly HATE Soviets, because after the WW II-nd they were occupying my country, and later on they installed soviet puppet government for upcoming almost 45 years, I have to honorably admit, that Soviet campaign against Imperial Military forces in Manguria, was a brilliant planning and achievement during the summer of 1945 !!!! Not only from military tactics point of view, but what was even more brilliant, from logistical point of view !!!!*

Great video. So with the Americans fighting a costly war of attrition in the Pacific, and British & Commonwealth troops battling it out in Burma..... the Soviets took on the 1.1Million Japanese in Manchuria at the same time the 2 Atomic bombs of the US hit the Japanese homeland all of which hastened an end to WW2.

The problem for Chiang kai shek ( also moscow trained ) was that Maos forces now had a foothold ally in the S.U. and could not claim VJ day.

The amount and complexity of the logistics, engineering and co-ordination of the Red Army in this invasion is truly amazing. "Stalin's War On Japan" lays it out in detail, and it'll blow your mind!

Hurra hurra red army ♥

Great video!!

Nothing about Manchuria. All about America.

Much was made by Stalin of a need of the Western allies to create a second front (invade Europe) while Russia was bled by Germany. This position of Stalin omits the fact that he did not, would not, attack Japan’s territories until VE.

Ooo, Madame Jong... seems l got a bit of yellow fever

What do the X's above the Japanese flags mean? Some they were four ,,,some there were two ,,,some there were three??

Henry Wallace would have made a great President.

Enough with the repeating twirling star!

Apropos of nothing but stories like this always make me wonder if there were guys that fought in '36 in Spain against the Spanish Fascists, then Leningrad say, then Konigsberg, Berlin, then a year later finding themselves attacking the Japanese. It would have been a hell-ish experience but also an amazing one. Being a good 'snowflake' in the '60's I always felt like there must have been some other way to force the Japanese to surrender rather than nuking them. There actually were ways that could have been done but it would have left the Kwangtung in power in China and with the insane nationalism prevalent amongst the Japanese in the 30's-40's we would have fought a very expensive and endless guerrilla war in Japan itself, on our own, for many years. The Brits couldn't have helped us since they were almost bankrupt having fought around the world against the Nazi's, Japanese, Romanians, Italians etc. since '39 (two years earlier than us) and the Canadians, Aussies, India, Ghurkas etc. were in the same boat with France many years away from being able to help. What changed my mind was spending five years reading about WW2. Iwo Jima, Tarawa, Pelielu and Okinawa changed my mind in a big way. We were actually restrained in only nuking them twice. If it had been up to me, besides Nagasaki and Hiroshima, I would have included Tokyo and 2 or 3 more places in Mancheria...one right after another.

The Russians wouldn’t attack the Japanese until they had defeated the Germans and their European allies. The Russian commanders could throw away the lives of their men carelessly. They could lose an entire army and replace it with another. The Russians had air superiority, the Japanese tanks and armored vehicles were never a threat to even a Sherman tank let alone a t-34. Since I was a kid and read about this offensive I saw it as a territory grab and regional political move by the Soviet Union. I also believe that they over reported Japanese casualties and prisoners taken. The Soviets under reported their own casualties.

Excellent documentary. However two observations made in this documentary are false. 1. Stalin was not the absolute ruler of the Soviet Union. In fact all military decisions were taken by his generals not himself who were the true arm of the Soviet Union's military might. Stalin was the chairman of the Communist Party and a figure head of the nation. It is also false to say that Stalin executed repressions against his opponents in the 1930's. The soldiers and generals who ended up prosecuted and in the Siberian prisons were the counter revolutionaries of the so called "White Army", the army of the old oligarchs and aristocrats connected with Czarist Russia, who were supported by Western powers, who had their share of terror in their attempt to tear down the Soviet Union and whom the overwhelming majority of the Soviet population considered as traitors and enemies of the people. 2. The Japanese had already accepted all the terms of surrender put forward by the allies as from February 1945 and this was communicated to the allies through the neutral state of Sweden. What the Japanese were asking for was only to be granted permission to keep emperor Hirohito in order for the Japanese population to accept defeat with dignity. On the 14th of August 1945 the allies, not Japan, accepted the Japanese request to keep the emperor and the war ended but only after the US had sent a clear message to the Soviet Union with its two nuclear tests on Japanese innocent civilians.

part 1 has been taken down

Thank goodness for the nuke.

Stalin always played both sides. Everyone knows he had a non aggression pact with Hitler. He also had one with the Japanese Empire. If Stalin wasn't such an evil , devious dictator, the Soviet Union wouldn't have lost 22 million people to the Nazis.

Everyone should realize one important fact germany. Japan. We're fighting all over the world. The russia's first only fighting the Germans ,. And this then just the japan's , one at a time ,, wonder if it had been one on one America. England again all over the world many fronts. ,, Russia's are over rated then. And now

Impressive, but one thing the Soviets did NOT have was substantial amphibious warfare capability to carry out D-Day type landings or island hopping as the Americans did. The Japanese still had battleships in reserve and coastal defenses ready. In the end, it was the A-bomb and the American forces on stand-by for an invasion that forced the Japanese to surrender.

didn't know Putin was in this war 😂also does anyone if the outro song is just for this docu or is it on youtube?