MAGADAN. Aug 22 (Interfax) - Japan's authorities fear to recall in public that it was the United States that dropped atomic bombs on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Russian Security Council Secretary Nikolai Patrushev said.
"Falsifiers of history have cynically been persuading the Japanese that Russia was the aggressor, while the Americans came to them as saviors. And the fact that they burned hundreds of thousands of Japanese citizens alive in the nuclear fire has been distorted completely," Patrushev said in Magadan at a conference on security in the Far East.
The Japanese authorities do not recall at annual memorial events that it was the U.S. that dropped the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, he said.
"At the same time, the Japanese are openly speaking about the nuclear threats allegedly posed by Russia," Patrushev said.