"We should follow the Russian example!": Chinese on the new Russian-Japanese dispute

7 September 2026 15 533 30

Chinese users news The website news.qq.com commented on the events surrounding the installation in Khabarovsk of a monument to a Soviet soldier, who, according to the artist's design, smashes a border stone with a rifle butt bearing the inscription "Japanese Empire" and a chrysanthemum—the symbol of the state and the imperial house. Such stones stood in several places where Japan at the time had land borders, specifically in southern Sakhalin.

Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi tweeted calling for the removal of the monument, which she called "insulting" to the state and the imperial family.

The post claims that Japanese users are "calling for revenge, and some are even demanding an invasion of Russia to reoccupy Sakhalin Island."

The news has already received over a thousand comments. Chinese users generally support the construction of a monument with such open narratives. It is often compared to similar Chinese monuments that portray the enemy less clearly.

Comments from news.qq.com are presented selectively. The opinions expressed are those of their authors only.

The Russian approach deserves every emulation. Placing such sculptures in frequently visited places will remind the Chinese of the need to remember history and never forget national humiliation. It is also a form of patriotic education. At the same time, a crest with a Japanese chrysanthemum could be placed on the floor in public toilets and other places.

We should also build a monument commemorating Japan's surrender, with a similar visual. One in every major city. But every time foreigners visit, they'll see it and remember it.

What a great idea! Every provincial capital should build a monument commemorating Japan's surrender, complete with sculptures and figures, so the Chinese people will never forget!

I have repeatedly commended Russia's decisive actions on various platforms; I respect those who dare to demonstrate their strength.

I would like to discuss the issue with netizens who support Ukraine: has Russia ever offended or provoked us in any way?

We strongly support Russia's just act of erecting a monument to the victory over Japan! It serves as a constant reminder that we must not forget the history of the inhumane war unleashed by Japanese militarism. We must always be vigilant against its revival.

This monument has both historical and artistic significance, and I support Russia in its preservation!

I propose that similar monuments be erected in all provincial capitals and cities in China where monuments to the heroes of the Anti-Japanese War are located! I can donate as much as 20,000 yuan for this purpose.

Russians have a wonderful sense of aesthetics. The monument is impeccable in its concept, design, and execution.

Russia erected this statue specifically to provoke protests from Japan. If the Japanese hadn't protested, Russia would certainly have considered the statue a failure.

If Japan believes it has the right to preserve and perpetuate its national memory, then why shouldn't other countries be allowed to preserve theirs?

Japanese internet users got it all wrong. We don't want to hold a grudge. It was you who didn't apologize or offer compensation after your defeat.

History is the past. Dwelling on the past will only harm you and those around you! No country has a completely innocent history!

China should build more monuments commemorating the victories in the War of Resistance against Japan and the War of Resistance against the United States in Korea.

I strongly recommend that China build similar monuments in many cities, especially Nanjing! I'd be the first to petition the government!

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beeper

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7 September 2026 23: 10

Yes, history, especially the most recent history of the last centuries, should not be forgotten (and, moreover, distorted to suit the “political situation” of this or that period of modernity)!
In 1938, Hitler's Germany and its loyal ally, the Polish gentry, began the Second World Imperialist War in Europe with an armed attack on Czechoslovakia, while Japan at the same time began the Second World Imperialist War in Asia with an armed attack on China!
During their years of occupation of China, the Japanese brutally exterminated millions of Chinese residents!
The "Nanjing Massacre" and the atrocities of "Unit 731" in Harbin became a global symbol of the numerous war crimes committed by the Japanese occupiers during those years!
Therefore, the ardent anti-Japanese sentiments and the "evil memory" of many Chinese residents are understandable - this must not be forgotten, just as we, Soviet people, will never forget the atrocities of Hitler's "pan-Europeans" and their lackeys on our native land, against our compatriots, our relatives and loved ones, until the end of our lives, and we will always remember the Great Feat of our fathers and grandfathers in liberation from that bloody, murderous "pan-European" Hitlerite Nazism, we strive to pass on this memory to our children and grandchildren, to today's youth, who are intensively processed and stupefied in anti-Soviet terms by the "own bourgeois" petty-mercantile "advertising propaganda"!
And I see that the Chinese comrades clearly understand the provocative "anti-Japanese narrative" of the new Khabarovsk monument, although they see no difference in the international position of the current powerful superpower communist-capitalist People's China and the current fading "remnant-heir" of the former superpower USSR - a practically universally oppressed "regional leader", a bourgeois-feudal Russian Federation, and even under the control of an extremely weakened (it's time to call this historical period "Putin's stagnation", without the "gun carriage race" for now) aged "young branch of the Yeltsinoid Family" - "their bourgeois junior partners of our esteemed Western partners"!
Contrary to the opinion of most commentators on the Reporter website, I consider the Khabarovsk "anti-Japanese provocation" to be untimely, and in the current reality, it plays against Russia's pressing state interests, but plays into the hands of Japanese militarists and revanchists!!!
1. Alexey Davydov
  
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  7 September 2026 23: 46
  
  I consider the Khabarovsk "anti-Japanese provocation" to be untimely, in the current reality it plays against the vital state interests of Russia, but into the hands of Japanese militarists and revanchists
  
  Unfortunately, you're right. Those with common sense will understand this. I'd just add to the beneficiaries you mentioned the others—those who pit countries and their peoples against each other in wars.
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3. shpakov.alex
  
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  8 September 2026 06: 31
  
  The last paragraph ruined everything. Any "anti-Japanese provocation" is impossible in principle, since Japan has lost its sovereignty and belongs to the United States. And talking to Japan, much less listening to it, is completely pointless until they regain their independence.
  1. beeper
    
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    8 September 2026 08: 39
    
    Aka "shpakov.alex", you, unfortunately, have typical philistine "theoretical" quirks (you even write the name of the country Japan with a lowercase letter, just like our marginal Banderonazis derogatorily write the name of Russia with a lowercase letter, thus "expressing" themselves, but the USA is also like you, only in capital letters - it turns out that you and they, the Ukrobanderonazis, are brothers in mind) ), which cannot withstand the collision with harsh reality!
    You absolutely fail to see the open militarization of today's Japan and its rapidly growing navy (with a clear emphasis on conducting amphibious operations to seize islands), even without taking into account the fleet of the American allies occupying Japan, which is already superior to the Russian Pacific Navy!
    And, as the SVO has shown in Ukraine, the Americans are fighting against Russia with their puppet proxies, using the local population, which has been brainwashed for years by anti-Russian propaganda!
    The same thing is happening with the "used" Japanese, and Russian Far Eastern officials from the "Eaters of Russia" party, with their pre-election "PR campaigns," are thoughtlessly (and perhaps even corrupt "agents of influence" have been at work) contributing to this anti-Russian "brainwashing" of the Japanese public, consolidating their rabid support for "revising the results of the post-war annexation of the northern territories"!
    1. shpakov.alex
      
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      8 September 2026 10: 08
      
      Firstly, the 2shift key is stuck and I'm too lazy to go back (sometimes it's not laziness). Secondly, Japan's militarization isn't happening because of Russia's actions or inactions, but because Japan's master commands it. So whether Russia responds or not, Japan will militarize, even recognizing the suicidal nature of this undertaking. Fighting for the Japanese people's minds is futile, and unnecessary. They need to be shown their place, which is what has been done.
      1. Alexey Davydov
        
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        8 September 2026 10: 56
        
        Your thought:
        
        Secondly, the militarization of Japan is not happening due to Russia’s actions/inactions, but because Japan’s master commands it.
        
        Fighting for the minds of the Japanese is useless, and not necessary.
        
        Contradicts the last thought:
        
        They had to be shown their place, which is what was done.
        
        Who exactly was assigned the location? The officials who work for the Americans? The Japanese people, who are being brainwashed by anti-Russian propaganda?
        What positive results for Russia are expected from this action?
        
        shpakov.alex
        
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        8 September 2026 11: 29
        
        Nothing contradicts anything. The positive results for Russia are that Russians finally saw not just a snot-mouthed "let's live in peace" to their own detriment, but a rather firm response: "No, it's not necessary, get lost." Japanese officials?! The people of Japan?! Who cares what they think. You can't cure a patient if they don't want to be treated.
        
        Alexey Davydov
        
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        8 September 2026 12: 20
        
        Japanese officials?! The people of Japan?! I don't care what they think. You can't cure a patient who doesn't want to be treated.
        
        For such stupid and harmful statements to the country, you would have deservedly received 10 years in a labor camp under Stalin, who during WWII tried with all his might to avoid the USSR fighting on two fronts.
        
        shpakov.alex
        
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        8 September 2026 12: 46
        
        Deservedly so?! You made me laugh. I declared war on Japan?! Technically, we're still at war with them. Stalin kept an entire army in the east to contain Japan. That's how much he trusted them. And then Stalin drove them off the mainland by force, not by persuasion. That's how much he respected them. Under Stalin, you'd have been put up against the wall. For what? Just like that, on a neighbor's denunciation. Those were the times...
        
        Alexey Davydov
        
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        8 September 2026 13: 05
        
        Teach materiel:
        
        ...when intelligence reports indicated that the Japanese would refrain from attacking for the foreseeable future, the covert transfer of 17 rifle and tank divisions to Moscow began. The Far Easterners arrived at the front lines in late October 1941, when the Germans were just a few dozen kilometers from the capital. The 78th Rifle Division, commanded by Major General A.P. Beloborodov, particularly distinguished itself in the fighting. In November 1941, covering the Volokolamsk Highway northwest of the Soviet capital, it courageously held off the fierce onslaught of the 252nd Infantry Division and the SS Motorized Division "Das Reich" for two weeks.
        Units trained in the Far East were sent to the Soviet-German front until the spring of 1943. Thus, in the summer of 1942, eight rifle divisions and three rifle brigades were sent to the active army, and in early 1943, two cavalry divisions.
        
        If war with Japan had begun then, and all these forces had remained in the Far East and hadn't fallen to Moscow, who knows how things would have ended. Our ancestors were intelligent people, but unfortunately, the same can't be said for descendants like you.
        
        shpakov.alex
        
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        8 September 2026 13: 08
        
        Yeah, you're that stupid descendant. Where did you read that all combat units left the Far East? It's pointless for you to even read the material, you Wikipedia victim.
        
        Alexey Davydov
        
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        8 September 2026 13: 18
        
        Where did you read that all combat units left the Far East?
        
        Where did I write this?
        I wrote that it was possible to avoid opening a second front in the Far East, and that this played an important, if not decisive, role in the victory of the USSR.
        You're suggesting that we ignore such "trifles" in Russian politics. This is pure stupidity.
        
        shpakov.alex
        
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        8 September 2026 13: 29
        
        Stalin succeeded in some things, but he failed in others. It's like saying something about the lottery and the casino: "Well, someone wins." And since Stalin didn't withdraw all his troops from the Far East to Moscow, that means there were/were enough troops there, and that's why Japan never decided to attack. Incidentally, there was a successful special operation there designed to simulate a larger troop presence than was actually present—you, a "historian," should know that. :) Or maybe Japan didn't fail, but had other plans, and the war with the USSR was postponed until later, depending on Hitler's successes (or failures). There were several plans, and the implementation of a specific one depended on the current situation, not just on Stalin's "brilliance."
        
        twice-born
        
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        12 September 2026 16: 50
        
        Davydov, you're just keeping quiet about it, and most likely don't know it, but while sending divisions to war, the number of our troops in the Far East remained virtually unchanged! They were constantly replenished for four years by mobilizing the local Russian population.
        And the Japanese constantly monitored this, and therefore never dared to attack us.
        
        Alexey Davydov
        
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        13 September 2026 01: 07
        
        Unknown, you're ignoring this, or rather, you prefer not to notice that Stalin's desire to avoid opening a second front in the Far East at all costs is a fact of history. Anything less would have been criminally stupid. To commit such stupidity now would be fatal for today's Russia. This is precisely what I was trying to explain to this "comrade" who disregards such "trifles" and supports the "fifth column" provocation against the people and political forces of Japan.
      2. beeper
        
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        8 September 2026 10: 58
        
        Quote: shpakov.alex
        Firstly, the 2shift key is stuck and I'm too lazy to go back (sometimes it's not laziness). Secondly, Japan's militarization isn't happening because of Russia's actions or inactions, but because Japan's master commands it. So whether Russia responds or not, Japan will continue to militarize, even recognizing the suicidal nature of this undertaking. Fighting for the minds of the Japanese is useless, and not necessary. They had to be shown their place, which is what was done.
        
        Well, you have the same "impotent reasoning", the same blatant underestimation of the "struggle for minds" as the "Kremlin towers", alas!
        In my Soviet childhood, they used to say about such good-for-nothing simpletons: "No brains, practically a cripple!"
        No wonder the Kremlin isn't fighting for the minds of those being "liberated" from the "Kyiv bunch of Nazis and drug addicts" or not anymore, how is the bourgeois gang of "regionals" or Bandera's "Putin's godfather" so different from their "offspring" - the current "pre-Bandera-Nazi "youngsters" of the gang of "servants of the enemies of the people"? They even have the same state symbols, the same Ukronazi "idols" and flags, which in 2022 the Russians didn't tear down completely, leaving everything as is, just to quickly replace Zelets with Medvedchuk and leave, like not long before in Kazakhstan they defended the anti-Russian, anti-Russian Tokayev from completely pro-Western puppets???
        And the "no alternative Eurointegrators" President Yanukovych and Prime Minister Azyrov have closed more Russian schools, including in the Russian-speaking Donbass, than all their "predecessors," and installed the Bander-Nazi "Slobota" (something even Yushchenko wouldn't dare do!)" into the ZRada, secretly sponsored by the "Party of Regions," Ukrainian residents, where in the South-East (and throughout Eastern Ukraine) the vast majority of the Russian population is mercilessly beaten by the Y/Dobanderites, and then, in 2022, the Russians joined in this murderous campaign, as if on purpose, with Putin's "goodwill gesture," treacherously exposing our Russian and pro-Russian residents of the Kyiv, Sumy, Chernihiv, Kherson, and Kharkiv regions who had believed in the liberation of the Y/Dobanderonizi massacre!
        Well, what's surprising, because among the Yeltsin leaders there are only gray "educated people" (for the sake of a "diploma", which gave the opportunity to cling to leadership positions under the Union, and then with all their might they climbed into "membership of the party" in order to advance to the nomenklatura "sinecures", the "committee" was a nomenklatura haven for such opportunists, as long as there was a "proletarian purity of origin" of the candidate himself and his family and "innocent") - "businessmen", in whose eyes only "Make money, money, money...!", their ideology is primitive - philistine "private property"!
        Therefore, these dealers do not understand the decisive importance of a consolidating progressive state ideology and limit themselves to primitive propaganda for personal enrichment, which does not unite, but rather corrupts and segments Russian society, deliberately weakening it and the state as a whole (this is why the American curators of the EBN-Family and the writing of the Constitution of the "independent", semi-American colonial, Russian Federation so strictly constitutionally forbade a unified state ideology for their puppets from this criminal "Family")!
        Fighting for the minds of both our fellow citizens and those of obviously hostile foreign countries is essential, especially in times of armed conflict! After all, it undermines the enemy's morale and increases the number of supporters of our own country, reducing casualties at the front and in the rear (it will be less easy for the enemy to "recruit"—to persuade ordinary citizens, currently unprincipled and intoxicated by the currently promoted "greed for profit by any means"—to commit terrorist acts for money).
        Slightly paraphrasing the immortal lines of our Soviet front-line poet:
        
        "Hearts that are not occupied by us are immediately occupied by the enemy!"
        
        That's it, Shpakov.Alex!
        
        shpakov.alex
        
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        8 September 2026 11: 34
        
        With this zombified population of the independent state, it's too late to drink Borjomi. It's easier to replace the population. No, if someone wants to separate the rabid hohols from the normal ones with their own (yes, their own!) hands, then by all means, go ahead and preach. Me, definitely not! For me, it's better to burn this whole hive, bees and all, than save our own people.
        
        beeper
        
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        8 September 2026 17: 35
        
        Aka "shpakov.alex", I'm now convinced that I was right about you - you are a Russian (or perhaps an imported provocateur???) "brother in mind" of our (although, how are they "ours"??!) Ukrainian Bandera supporters, you share the same misanthropic "narratives" you proclaim, "a pair of peas in a pod"!
        
        shpakov.alex
        
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        9 September 2026 07: 09
        
        you are seriously and incurably ill
oao

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8 September 2026 02: 13

An excellent monument. For once, they did something successful.
Jim

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8 September 2026 02: 25

The monument gets a solid five!
twice-born

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8 September 2026 04: 06

A beautiful monument, a magnificent sculptor! It truly is like a man frozen in stone!
We need to erect more monuments like this in Siberia and throughout the country!
I hope those slant-eyed Japanese fascists die in agony! They still dare tell us what to do!
Well, go ahead and invade, as you advise, and you'll immediately see your islands disappearing into the water!
1. beeper
  
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  8 September 2026 08: 16
  
  Aka "Twice Born," something similar, a dashing, "hat-throwing" kind of thing, they wrote about Ukraine here on Reporter right up until the very beginning of the SVO...
  What can we say about such frivolous "hurray-patriots"?!
  After all, the Kursk region of the Russian Federation, suddenly and quickly occupied by "daring" NATO proxies, and liberated only with powerful Korean assistance after 8 months of long, intense battles, and with great human and material losses, is, alas, a striking example of this!
  And as for the vaunted "nuclear weapon", our Soviet one, which you so arrogantly, like a philistine, "threaten the Japanese" and everyone else with, the Kremlin's "bourgeois partners in the West" themselves fear it like the devil fears incense - this is already clear and understandable to the entire "world community" - the former (from the time of our mighty nuclear USSR) fear of the world bourgeoisie has completely disappeared, because the overseas profiteers are holding tightly to the Kremlin's "bourgeois" nouveau riche by their withered "Faberge"!
  And nuclear "special munitions" also tend to "go bad" over time without regular "property refreshment"!
  Russia hasn't conducted test explosions at a nuclear test site (and Kazakhstan, along with that Soviet nuclear test site, is now a foreign country) for decades, and the last actual launch of a silo-based ICBM from the Russian "nuclear triad" ended with the missile exploding at launch (this is what's widely known, while only a few "secret bearers" know about other, still-classified, unpleasant incidents in the "cancer troops" and the actual percentage of successful launches, and the current "guarantor-VGK" certainly knows about it).
  That's why, under the weak-willed, dissolute Putin and his incompetent, thieving top military commanders, the Japanese, egged on by Washington in an anti-Russian spirit, are already openly militarizing, without any of their previous embarrassment, "reclassifying" their amphibious helicopter carriers into aircraft carriers, increasingly zealously "coveting" the Kuril Islands taken by Stalin, and "eyeing" Sakhalin Island (although, if you read Japanese comments online, they're "huffing" even more, fearing nothing - they've already blamed our USSR for the American nuclear bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki and dream of "getting even" for the former defeat of their Kwantung Army!!!)!
  And instead of “sit down and have a nice talk,” in this difficult period Russia is going through with the protracted SVO and continuous “sanctions packages,” the petty Russian Far Eastern officials, for the sake of opportunistic, momentary, pre-election PR of their “leading united party” among the Russian common people, are pompously organizing such a d
  an absurd, loud provocation (after all, the state symbols of Imperial Japan, monumentally "desecrated" by this Khabarovsk mega-monument, were not recognized as criminal by an international tribunal, as was the Hitlerite swastika of the "pan-European" Third Reich), sharply "escalating the situation" between the Russian Federation and Japan!
  1. twice-born
    
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    8 September 2026 14: 40
    
    And you, the Japanese, are brothers, I see, or did you practice karate and judo, or do you forgive them everything because of their cars and care so much about them?! I have every right, as a Russian, to defend my homeland by any means necessary and to repel any of our enemies! Especially such open fascists as the Japanese, who are in the service of our other bitter enemies – the USA.
    1. beeper
      
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      8 September 2026 17: 26
      
      I see that deeply considering the consequences of the authorities' short-term, largely opportunistic (for the sake of "ratings" for the State Duma elections) actions is not for you, "Twice Born"! And you're completely unable to comprehend what you read; you don't grasp it (and you even twist it, attributing your own conjectures to me).
      I'll disappoint you, I did boxing at the Youth Sports School, and a bit of sambo, but I never did judo (I heard those heart-rending cries from the judoka spectators in the hall: "Strangle him, strangle him!" - I went with my teammates to laugh and watch their competitions and funny monkey "rituals") or karate, even at the peak of its popularity in the Soviet Union.
      In my life, I only drove our Soviet tanks, various ones, and a ZIL-130 truck, and a factory electric car when necessary. As for Japanese cars, mostly Toyotas from former party nomenklatura firms, after the collapse of the USSR, in the gangster "holy 90s," I was forced to repair them at work, as well as BMWs, fashionable then among former "party members" and thieves, because... The dealers bought counterfeit crap spare parts from Poland/China, so they turned to me as an experienced mechanical engineer and fitter/turner/miller/grinder... "a master with golden hands", I sketched out what was broken and fixed it, made spare parts from good domestic materials according to my own sketches during working hours, to the detriment of my main job - only on the recommendation of the "red director" of the plant, a former district party secretary, who suddenly "changed his shoes" and became embourgeois.
      There's nothing special about Japanese cars or Japanese rifles. Their tanks, starting with the Type 90, are certainly interesting, with their hydropneumatic suspension, but I've always liked our Soviet tanks more, especially the Kharkov T-64B.
      I've already written my opinion on everything else regarding that outrageous "monument" in Khabarovsk in the comments above.
      1. twice-born
        
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        12 September 2026 16: 10
        
        Just don't pretend to be a wise man or peacemaker here. Well, then let's rewrite history for our Japanese enemies. We'll also ban books and films about this war, about the annihilation of the Russians in Harbin, and the inhumanly monstrous "Unit 731"! Otherwise, God forbid such a high-tech enemy power as Japan be offended!
        Then let's also destroy everything about the Great Patriotic War and the May 9th Victory Day—all the monuments, films, books, and textbooks—and ban historical reenactment festivals! They're also pitting us against the great economic powerhouse Germany!
        Putin kept kissing Merkel passionately, drinking beer, and the drunkard with their Kohl, and they are still against us!
        Well, then, in order to avoid conflict with France, we will also remove all the monuments, burn Lev Nikolayevich’s “War and Peace” and Bondarchuk’s film of the same name!
        Everything will be wise forever, according to your standards, and friendly! Just like in the 90s, they bent the country to please them, even using Vaseline themselves, they tore it apart and destroyed everything they had to please them! I hope they don't accidentally take offense and don't fear us, and accept us as one of their own!
        "Thank you" to such "wise" and far-sighted advisers, especially from Ukraine, like you!
        
        beeper
        
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        13 September 2026 15: 48
        
        Well, don't distort things, aka "Twice Born" - don't attribute liberality to me, read my comments above!
        Think systematically (i.e., "see the forest for the trees"!!!), with a cool head, and not based on emotions (making a person emotional and feeling guilty are the first, most primitive techniques of scammers and manipulators)!
        And separate, figuratively speaking, the wheat from the chaff (those who are promoting themselves on such outrageous "monuments" during the election campaign, ignoring the "long-term negative effect" in such a difficult international situation as the current, increasingly tense, Russian-Japanese relations) and don't allow yourself to be "quasi-patriotically" manipulated by all sorts of rogue politicians!
        And what difference does it make where I am from when I worry and share my worldly (and military-political) wisdom, I still remain a Russian person and I feel offended for our common Russian Fatherland, for the Russian State, when local politicians so stupidly expose it to the blow of a "war on two fronts" at the most inopportune moment!
Alexey Davydov

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8 September 2026 11: 07

The quality of the sculptural composition is irrelevant in this case. What matters is that, in this place and at this time, this monument is an enemy provocation directed against Russia.
Despite its strength, the USSR sought to avoid a simultaneous war on two fronts in the West and the Far East during the Great Patriotic War, which it succeeded in doing. Victory was nevertheless achieved with great difficulty and bloodshed. Why should we add this problem to our own woes now, given Russia's current state, by helping the Americans engineer our war with Japan and depriving our diplomacy of the opportunity to avoid it?
vBR

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13 October 2026 22: 08

Quote: Alexey Davydov
The quality of the sculptural composition is irrelevant in this case. What matters is that, in this place and at this time, this monument is an enemy provocation directed against Russia.
Despite its strength, the USSR sought to avoid a simultaneous war on two fronts in the West and the Far East during the Great Patriotic War, which it succeeded in doing. Victory was nevertheless achieved with great difficulty and bloodshed. Why should we add this problem to our own woes now, given Russia's current state, by helping the Americans engineer our war with Japan and depriving our diplomacy of the opportunity to avoid it?

In general, it's all true and logical, if only it mattered. But Japan is already involved in the war by 2030, according to plans, completely independent of whether they erect a monument with a severed chrysanthemum or not. So shpak.alex is probably right – now they need to somehow explain and motivate their own population. Why such a monument didn't appear in the late Soviet era is, admittedly, a bit odd. Maybe they just weren't thinking about it, because Japan never even presented itself as an adversary during the Cold War, a mere trifle...
Grossvater

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16 October 2026 08: 18

around the installation in Khabarovsk of a monument to a Soviet soldier, who, according to the composition's creators, smashes a border stone with the butt of a rifle bearing the inscription "Japanese Empire" and a chrysanthemum—the symbol of the state and the imperial house.

I didn't know! Cool!