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    Ironically, that was one of the reasons we dropped the bombs when we did. Stalin was already being difficult when the Allies were trying to split up Germany. Truman knew that if one drop of Russian blood was spilled invading Japan, Stalin would demand territory in return. Truman didn’t want to deal with that, so we didn’t even give Russia a vague notification beforehand.