A 15-metre bronze monument to a Soviet soldier has been unveiled on the banks of the Amur River in Khabarovsk. The memorial is dedicated to the Soviet victory over militarist Japan and the end of World War II . The statue depicts a soldier smashing a border marker bearing the chrysanthemum — a symbol of Imperial Japan — with the butt of his rifle . The memorial honours Soviet forces that defeated the Kwantung Army in August 1945 , advanced into northeastern #China and northern #Korea