FSB sources say Russia is planning to attack Japan in 2021. What do the two states share?

American publication Newsweek A March 17 email by an agent with the pseudonym “Wind o change” says Vladimir Ozekin, a Russian human rights activist who runs the anti-corruption website Gulagu.net, is now in exile in France.

Therefore, the FSB agent often writes to Osechkin, expressing his anger and dissatisfaction within the FSB about Vladimir Putin’s war. What prompted him in UkraineOn February 24.

Igor Sushko, executive director of the Washington-based nonprofit Wind of Change Research Group, is translating the letter, which began on March 4, from Russian into English. He shared all of the emails, including the March 17 memo, with Newsweek in full.

The letter was published by Osechkin and analyzed by Christo Grochev, an FSB expert. He showed the letter to “two real (current or former) FSB contacts”, who “had no doubt it was written by a colleague”.

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Attack on Kiev

In August 2021, Russia ““is preparing very seriously for a local military conflict with Japan.”The FSB agent said in an email to Osechkin in March.

Russia chose to invade Ukraine a few months after the FSB agent.

Hopes were high that the countries would enter a phase of severe conflict and war. Why Ukraine was ultimately chosen for war is a choice for others to answer“, they wrote.

In his lines, the FSB agent noted that Moscow was preparing a cyber attack on Japan, while the Russian propaganda machine was also launched with a major effort to brand the Japanese as “Nazis” and “fascists”.

Russia and Japan did not sign any peace treaty

A peace treaty to formally end World War II was never signed by Russia and Japan, largely due to disputes over a group of islands claimed by Japan but occupied by Russia.

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The islands of Gunashiri, Etorobu, Shikotan and Habomai in the Kuril chain were captured by the Soviet Union at the end of World War II. Tokyo claims the islands as its “Northern Territories,” and the issue has strained relations between Russia and Japan over time.

According to the whistleblower, a “major sticking point” between Moscow and Tokyo is represented by the Kuril Islands.

Located between the large Japanese island of Hokkaido and the Russian Kamchatka Peninsula, the islands offer many military and political advantages.

For Japan, here lies the foundation of its modern geopolitics: its status as a loser in World War II prevented the Japanese from having a proper military force, foreign intelligence, and so on. For the Land of the Rising Sun, the return of the Kuril Islands means a reconsideration (or even cancellation) of its post-war status.The letter also mentioned.

On the other hand, the FSB agent says, the islands in question are an “exchange penalty” for Moscow.
The Heavenly Kingdom (China) takes a very negative view of any attempt to revise the post-war agreements, and a potential victory for Tokyo in the dispute over the Kuril Islands is unacceptable to Beijing. It is unacceptable that China would easily complicate Russia’s life in order to offer such a ‘gift’.“.

Former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has already placed a strong emphasis on trying to “negotiate” with Russia over the Kuril Islands and reforming the country’s intelligence service, the whistleblower said.

Historically, Japan’s military intelligence services have always been at a high level, but after losing World War II, they were simply disbanded at the behest of the victors.“, according to the document.

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Russian anti-Japanese propaganda and Japanese raids on Soviet soldiers

In August 2021, the FSB declassified graphic information about how Soviet citizens were tortured by Japanese special services during World War II.

The FSB whistleblower said the service was tasked with launching an “anti-Japanese information campaign in Russian society”.

The classified material includes data from the trial of Otozo Yamada, a general in the Imperial Japanese Army during World War II.

Initially, on August 8, the Russian media were very stingy in their commentary on the news: they said that Japan had been preparing for war with the Soviet Union since 1938, that offensive plans were being drawn up and diversions were being made. .“, the whistleblower wrote.

But on August 16, the Russian press exploded simultaneously, discussing the classified documents in a completely different tone: the Japanese allegedly conducted terrible biological experiments on Soviet prisoners and treated Soviet prisoners very badly. The details of the plague pans being used to torture the prisoners are all rusted out. Russia Today also joined as a major mouthpiece of international propaganda“.

In the email in question, the whistleblower included several links to pro-Kremlin media on the matter, one of which was “How the Soviet Union saved the world from Japan-made biological warfare“And another title”Evidence of Japan’s preparations for war with the Soviet Union is classified“.

An RBC report published on August 20, 2021, citing declassified FSB documents, said that experiments were carried out on prisoners in a concentration camp in the Harbin region, and during World War II, “jAponians weaponize bacteria and experiment on them with ‘new toxic chemicals’“.

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