The Last Autumn: Counterattack Against Japan and Acceptance of Surrender

Author: Xu Yan
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Publish Date: 2005-05-01
Features: In the summer and autumn of 1945, the World Anti-Fascist Warfront—China Theater—presented an unprecedentedly unique and complex situation. As the liberated areas launched a major counteroffensive against the Japanese and puppet forces, Chiang Kai-shek, in exchange for the Soviet Union's lack of support for the Communist Party of China, traded China's interests and Outer Mongolia with Stalin. Subsequently, with the tacit approval of the United States, he and Japanese generals like Okamura Yasuji engaged in "recovery operations," leading to a bizarre phenomenon in the China Theater: fully armed Japanese "prisoners of war" continued to fight against the liberated areas' armed forces for half a year after Japan's surrender.
While acknowledging the efforts of the vast officers and soldiers of the Kuomintang (KMT) army and the people in the occupied areas during the war of resistance, the author, with irrefutable facts, exposed the KMT leadership under Chiang Kai-shek for waiting passively for victory, monopolizing the surrender authority with U.S. support, and colluding with the surrendering Japanese and puppet forces, attempting to steal the fruits of the national people's war of resistance. This fully reflects the victorious development of the Anti-Japanese National Liberation War led by the Communist Party of China, which became a glorious epic of success in the post-war revolution.