The two countries fought for a piece of land and war broke out. What happened afterwards?

As early as thousands of years ago, fierce conflicts and wars often broke out in ancient countries in order to compete for more land and population. In ancient times, the smoke was everywhere, in the final analysis, for the national interest. With the vast land, people began to develop their businesses, establish a country and operate step by step to make the country rich and strong.

However, in the late Qing Dynasty, we watched helplessly as the territory was carved up. China has a vast territory and rich resources since ancient times. With the continuous expansion of the Sheng and Qiang Dynasties, China's territory and territory are also envied by other countries. When the country is strong, other countries will pay tribute, and when the country declines, it can only be slaughtered.

China lost so much land in the late Qing Dynasty that other countries mistook it for their own. What is more exaggerated is that the two countries have fought for a piece of land many times, but both sides have forgotten that this land actually belongs to China.

The dispute between Japan and Russia robbed the war for many years.

Sakhalin Island, located in the northeast of Eurasia and southeast of the mouth of Heilongjiang, was originally named Kuye, Kuwu, Gu Wei or Heilongyu in China, translated as Sakhalin Island in Russia, and called Niigata (referring to the north of Hokkaido) or Huatai in Japan. Today, Sakhalin Island is the largest island in the Russian Federation, under the jurisdiction of Sakhalin State, with an area of 76,400 square kilometers, which is a little larger than the two islands in Taiwan Province Province combined.

Although it belongs to Russian territory now, before that, Japan and Russia had several wars because of it, which lasted for a very long time. The human heart is insufficient, and the snake devours the elephant. Both Japan and Russia attach great importance to this territory and no one will give in. This is why the war between this small island country and Russia, which lasted for many years, began.

At first, Japan seemed to have the upper hand. 1905, Japan defeated Russia in one fell swoop. According to the treaty signed after the war, Sakhalin Island is divided into two parts along the 50-degree north latitude line. When the Russians occupied the northern part of the island, the Japanese set up a colony Huatai Hall in the southern part of the island.

From 1942, Huatai Island was merged into Japan, no longer under the jurisdiction of the colonial department, and gradually became a part of Japan.

But in February 1945, things began to turn around. After Stalin, Roosevelt and Churchill signed the Yalta Agreement, the Soviet Union tore up the five-year neutrality agreement signed with Japan on August 8 and declared war on Japan. As compensation for the Soviet Union's battles with Japanese troops in Manchuria, Sakhalin Island and Kuril Islands in China, the Allies promised the Soviet Union to recover the previously lost South Sakhalin Island and Kuril Islands.

The Soviet army launched "Operation August Storm" on August 9, 1945, in which the Battle of Sakhalin Island lasted from August to 25th, and the Soviet army occupied the whole island. The 40-year-old Japanese colony Huatai Hall disappeared. Sakhalin's final destination became Russia, and Japan was willing but unable to fight again.

What the two countries have been fighting for for for years is actually China land.

However, the true ownership of Sakhalin Island, which the two countries have been robbing, is shocking. Long before the war between the two countries began, Sakhalin Island

It's already our territory. Later, because of the incompetence of the national government, it became the object of looting by other countries.

China's inherent territory was Sakhalin Island, the largest island in China, with an area of over 70,000 square kilometers, more than twice that of Taiwan Province Province. Sakhalin Island is located in the east of Heilongjiang estuary, facing the Sea of Okhotsk in the east and north, facing the mainland across tatar strait in the west, and bordering Japan across Zonggu Strait in the south. It covers an area of about 76,400 square kilometers, with numerous lakes and swamps, rich natural resources and rich products.

Sakhalin Island was completely incorporated into Chinese territory after the Yuan Dynasty. When the Nuer Padawan Department was established in the Ming Dynasty, sakhalin island established a complete rule. During the Manchu Dynasty, the aborigines here surrendered to the Qing Dynasty. However, in the early Qing Dynasty, due to the small population of the whole Northeast and the selfishness of the Manchu rulers, the vast land of nearly 2.5 million square kilometers in the whole Northeast was vast and sparsely populated, which seriously affected the national defense construction of the whole Northeast.

By the end of the Qing Dynasty, the government was corrupt, dark and incompetent, and countries scrambled to carve up China's land. Tsarist Russia was the most ambitious and gradually seized 6.5438+0.5 million square kilometers of land in the northwest of China. After the territory was ceded, the foolish late Qing government completely relaxed its vigilance because it thought that the crisis in Russia had passed.

Facts have proved that Russia is still exploring step by step, trying to acquire more land. In the Beijing Treaty, China ceded 400,000 square kilometers of land east of the Wusuli River, including Sakhalin Island. At this time, the Manchu rulers had already lost the enterprising spirit of their ancestors, and Sakhalin Island became the territory of Russia.

China ignored Sakhalin island step by step, while Japan joined the war against Russia. Finally lost to hungry Russia, Sakhalin Island was returned. The two countries have been at war for years, fighting and fighting, and Sakhalin has changed hands many times, but Japan is still unwilling. What the two countries have never remembered is that what they fought for was actually ours from the beginning.

summary

The neglect of management by the government in the late Qing Dynasty made China lose a large area of land. Sakhalin Island has become a disputed territory between Japan and Russia. Will China have a chance to win back this land?

References:

the treaty of beijing