Anti-Japan events and CCP's rewriting of Manchuria history

Considering the following recent anti-Japan events, I wanted to try to see if I can use a short post to straighten out the CCP's rewritten history about Japan's occupation of Manchuria.

1. Firing of Song by Aurora for questioning the death toll of Nanjing Massacre.
2. Incarceration of Li Tiantian for defining Song.
3. Chinese boxer Xuan Wu was cheered for breaking the rule to endanger his Japanese opponent.

Manchuria (i.e., the three northeastern provinces of China) was once by far the most industrialized area. The CCP acknowledges this fact, but strangely the history of this remarkable development is missing, sketchy, vague, or confusing in CCP’s history books. This is because they do not want to give any credits to Japan.

In case you wonder, let me state clearly that by no means do I try to defend the Imperial Japanese Army’s barbarity or the Japanese invasion of other countries. The IJA’s barbarity had no boundary. It targeted all peoples including its own (near the end of the war). If you have any doubt, read the stories told by American soldiers who survived the Battan Death March. "All we were doing was burying the dead,"

Here is the super-condensed history of Manchuria in that period:

After Boxer Rebellion, all of the 8-Nation Alliance largely withdrew the troops except Russia which characteristically stationed 177k troops in Manchuria. Russia had little intention to vacate the area as promised. China could do little to them.

Japan started the costly Russo-Japanese War (1904-1905) for its own interest after negotiations failed. It is important to note China (Qing) implicitly and effectively supported Japan in this war. 

After winning the war at a heavy cost, Japan returned Manchuria to China while taking over the railway, leasing Dalian, and obtaining the rights of some mining.  Qing was not completely happy but a whole lot happier than with Russia’s wanton occupation.

The biggest sin of Japan at that point is its establishment of the Kwantung Army that grew from a security force of 14K men to a regular army of over 700K at the end of WWII. It played a key role in annexing Manchuria in 1931.

Japan started to develop Manchuria rapidly after 1931. It is hard to get accurate economic metrics of that period. I have read that Manchuria’s GDP reached #4 in the world, #1 in Asia exceeding that of Japan. Love to hear any correctio of these numbers.

As a student in the 80s, I had many chats w/ a top scientist of a PRC space institute. He graduated from a Japanese medical school in Manchuria, was sent to the USSR to get his Ph.D. in the 50s. He had lots of complimentary words for the Japanese despite he is a CCP member. 

His words about the USSR were not that kind. That is the feeling of many residents in Manchuria. Again, I am not defending Japan’s invasion, just stating facts.

The USSR looted Manchuriaafter defeating Japan by taking all heavy and advanced equipment.

The mass rape committed by the USSR’s red army in Manchuria is one or two orders of magnitude higher than that of the IJA in Nanjing. I estimated there were over 1M rapes based on anecdotes, published stories in China, and the 2M red army rapes in Germany after WWII.

The CCP punishes people who complain about the USSR Red Army’s rapes (this is well documented).

Deng had a point when he told Bush that the USSR took 3M sq km from China (Outer Manchuria has 1M sq km), 1/3 of current China's area.

The middle school dropout’s vow that they will never lose an inch of the land inherited from ancestors is 100% BS.