After Russia wrapped up their European theater, as promised to the allies, they began to amass for a northern front with Japan. Two nukes, and the Japanese still resisted, until they realized they will be fighting a two front war with no resources to continue - surrender was the only option, and to the US, because the US actually followed Geneva Convention. Russia would have torn them asunder.
People forget Russia had beef with Japan going back to even before WW1. Or that Russia stomped down all the way to Berlin, and saw no reason to change that mode of operation when they set their sights on Japan until the US of A demonstrated that they could literally press the extinction button multiple times.
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