Аннотация: MMMDCLVII. Fussy historians. A sketch of the modern scientific landscape. - May 7, 2025.
Fussy historians. A sketch of the modern scientific landscape.
Why didn't Japan attack the USSR in the period 1941-1945?
In school history lessons, I learned that Japan did not attack the USSR because of the victory of Soviet troops in the battles on Lake Hassan and Khalkhin Gol.
Two days ago, I heard that Japan was waiting: would the Nazi troops "cut" the Volga River or not? The importance of the Volga is so great that if the Nazis had hypothetically "cut" the Volga, Japan would have attacked the USSR. Japan was "waiting"!
And tonight (early in the morning), one of the modern historians said that Japan did not attack the USSR because it was "bogged down" in China.
And why is Japan "bogged down" in China?
Japan got bogged down because the Soviet Union was providing a great assistance to China.
And I'm learning a lot of interesting things. It seemed to me that Soviet foreign policy was led by Vyshinsky and Korneichuk... Everything was not going badly in the western direction: numerous international agreements were concluded, which ensured a calm (and beneficial for the USSR) international environment for about 50 years.
Why, I wondered, did Vyshinsky, Korneichuk and others get something multiple-valued in the East?
And the "oriental box", according to a modern historian, whom I heard night (early in the morning), was opening simply.
Ten times this historian repeated the name of one of the members of the Politburo. This member of the Politburo (on Stalin's instructions, as I understood it) was sent to the East and operated there. And not only did he "supply" various kinds of values, but, as one could understand, he turned the "partisan chief" into a "leader-theoretic."
He was a skilled man. If Stalin directed him to the East, then Khrushchev directed him to the West, to Cuba. And Cuba has great beaches, and the USSR helped Cuba a lot.
I do not fully trust this modern historian, but I accept the option as a version: Vyshinsky, Korneychuk and others led Western Soviet foreign policy, and everything was relatively good for the USSR in the western direction (for 50 years), and a well-known member of the Politburo was engaged in Soviet foreign policy in the eastern direction with the results that were achieved.
The United States paid a lot of attention to Japan. After the recent introduction of a new system of duties, one of the experts on the history of Japan spent a long time listing what benefits the United States received from post-war Japan. In particular, several post-war international economic treaties (between Japan and the United States) were listed, which gave the United States a huge advantage in trade and currency matters - advantages that are expressed in trillions of dollars. So it was not in vain that US foreign policy figures were concerned about Japan - if they gave it something, they received huge funds from it (directly and indirectly).
It is also important to act actively now. For example, cars. On the one hand, after the massive "withdrawal" of the Western automotive industry, cars are needed - for example, from the East. But, on the other hand, Russian automobile plants have started operating. So local figures need to maneuver somehow so that cars produced in Russian factories are in demand.
In addition, skilled Eastern negotiators want to buy energy and energy carriers at favorable prices for them - almost at domestic Russial prices.
Thus, local figures need to act as vigorously as possible in order not to get bogged down in the current economic situation.
May 07, 2025 05:43
Translation from Russian into English: May 7, 2025 06:37
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