Recently, Yasuhiko Arima, an honorary professor at Waseda University in Japan, wrote that Russia should be held responsible for America's dropping of an atomic bomb in Japan.
September 7th, Russian Foreign Minister Lavrov said he was 'very shocked'.
According to the website of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, on September 7, Lavrov mentioned in a speech at the Moscow State Institute of International Relations that he saw a post on a social platform by a Japanese scholar stating that if there had been no Soviet Union, Hiroshima and Nagasaki would not have been bombed, "I am very shocked."
Lavrov said, 'I'm not joking. He explained that the Soviet Union violated the Yalta Agreement and began to expand its influence globally. This was something that the United States and its then-president, Truman, could not tolerate. Therefore, they bombed Hiroshima and Nagasaki with the aim of making the Soviet Union recognize its place and preventing it from expanding.'
"No further elaboration is needed... but everything here has been taken as a serious point raised by academic scholars." Rafflov said.
According to RT, on September 4th, Mazaef wrote that 'if the Soviet Union had not violated the Yalta Agreement and expanded its influence rapidly, Japan would not have been bombed with atomic bombs.'
According to him, he learned this view from Americans: “Atomic bomb bombing was not a necessary means to force Japan to surrender, but rather an attempt to contain the expansion of the Soviet Union in Asia after Japan's defeat.” He also said that he would find new information in Japan to support and promote this view.
This statement has sparked strong controversy. Japanese netizens also raised objections: “Why do Japanese people always deny reality, refuse to reflect, and blame others? Japan was bombed because its crimes have gone beyond the limits of human nature.”
