@ Winner: On China, you shall see later.
By the way. At the point I am at in the game, it has begun to run
unbearably slowly. I have actually considered just ending the game after japan's defeat, but it seems everyone here would like to see the cold war go hot, so I will try not to disappoint.
I have even switched to using counters instead of sprites, but that has not really helped much. What else is there that I can do about it?
Soviet troops continue to push further into Honshu Island, facing ever growing amounts of Japanese infantry, who are not only fighting for every inch of ground but are also entrenched in some of the most inhospitable territory in the entire island. Some Soviet veteran soldiers and commanders even remark that they are fighting far more harder than even the Germans did.
Meanwhile, the peoples of india have had enough. After seeing their lands wrecked by bitter fighting between Japan and the Allies, and after enduring several years of brutal Japanese occupation, the People of India and Pakistan leave the British empire. The British see no alternative but to let them go.
Soviet troops move in from Hokkaido and link up with the rest of the army. They begin to tighten the noose around the capital of the Japanese Empire, the major city of Tokyo.
The Japanese withdraw to their capital, garrisoning it with approximately 200,000 men. Stalin then decides to make an example of the Japanese. Instead of ordering the red army to smash their way into the city, stalin orders them to hold back. Instead, the first of the USSR's nuclear weapons is loaded on a Tu-4 heavy bomber in vladivostok...
And then dropped right into the center of the city. Soviet troops report seeing a brilliant flash, followed by an ominous mushroom shaped cloud on the horizon. No one in the red army, or for that matter the entire world, except maybe the scientists at omsk, have seen anything like it.
The Japanese defenders flee the area, dropping their weapons in shear terror and surrendering in mass to the soviet army. Zhukov's tank corps is then ordered to secure the city. Zhukov and his battle hardened tankers and soldiers, who have endured many intense battles against the German army, are completely unprepared for what they see.
Nothing. There is literally almost nothing left of the once massive city of tokyo. It is learned soon that the Japanese government, including the emperor, had fled the city by airplane to the bonin islands just hours before the bomb fell.
A stunning intelligence report hits Stalin's desk. It is found out that the allies are letting the new federal Republic of Germany build bismarck class battleships! This particular battleship, the Moltke, is even joined by a new heavy cruiser, the Admiral Hipper!
Soviet troops, after conquering Japan, begin to secure the last major bases and locations still left under Japanese control. First is Hainan island, which has been under siege ever since the fall of China.
Then comes Okinawa, which is stormed by 60,000 soviet troops.
