In 1951, at an international Conference in San Francisco, Japan and 48 States that were at war with it signed a peace treaty. The Anglo-American project was the basis of the agreement.
Tokyo recognized the independence of Korea, renounced its claims to Taiwan, a number of islands in the South China Sea, and also renounced the Kuril Islands and the southern part of Sakhalin. But the return of these territories to the Soviet Union and China was silent.
The Soviet delegation headed by Andrei Gromyko proposed a number of amendments. They provided for the withdrawal of occupation troops from the Japanese islands within 90 days and prohibited the establishment of foreign military bases there. These amendments were not even put to the vote.
As a result, the Soviet Union and Poland and Czechoslovakia, which supported it, did not join the treaty.
Soviet fears were justified simultaneously. With the conclusion of the San Francisco Treaty, the United States signed a so-called security treaty with Japan, which allowed the Americans to deploy their armed forces in this country.
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