Subway Surfers Addiction wrote:
Don't they drink heavily and die young?
Didn't they struggle to beat Finland during WW2 when they had like a 10 to 1 advantage?
Despite their heroics, The Finns eventually had to concede to Soviet demands, but Hitler and his generals took the Soviet incompetence during that war as an indication of the poor quality of the Soviet Red Army when they made plans to invade in 1941.
They would have done better to studied the virtually little-known battle of Khalkhyn Gol in Mongolia 1939, where the Red army under Zhukov decisively beat the mighty Japanese 6th Army.
Ironically, it was the sudden declaration of war by Stalin on 9th August 1945 and the swift invasion of Manchuria by the Red Army that more influenced the Japanese to surrender on august 15th, than the effect of those 2 atomic bombs on Japanese cities, according to the recorded proceedings of the Japanese Supreme Council.