In December 1949, a dozen Japanese officers were brought to trial in Khabarovsk, Russia, on charges that they were part of Unit 731, a unit of the Japanese Kwantung Army that was accused of carrying out biological warfare experiments in China during the war. All the officers were convicted and sentenced to prison terms of varying lengths. The Soviet authorities published an English-language account of the trial in 1950, which was made available in the West but was ignored as Communist propaganda until the 1990’s, when Western scholarship began to confirm what the Soviets had alleged in the trial.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khabarovsk_War_Crime_Trials
Yesterday, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov delivered a video address to a conference of the International Research and Practice Forum, entitled “The Khabarovsk War Crime Trials: Historic Significance and Contemporary Challenges.” The conference covered a range of topics related to bacteriological warfare in addition to the Khabarovsk trial itself.
In his address, Lavrov vowed that Russia will continue to fight all efforts to rewrite the history of World War II with all of the diplomatic tools at its disposal. “In the next few days, the 76th session of the UN General Assembly will open in New York. In this regard, it is worth recalling that the universally recognized results of World War II, enshrined in the world organization’s charter, are sacrosanct. Russia’s diplomacy will continue to suppress attempts to revise them, no matter what the source is,” he said.
