Posted on 08/07/2015 6:57:55 PM PDT by John Semmens
Russian legislator Sergei Naryshkin called for an international military tribunal to open an investigation of the United States' bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945, calling the bombings "a crime against humanity." While most historians agree that the bombings resulted in fewer Japanese casualties than would have been the case had the country been invaded, Naryshkin contended that "the use of unconventional weapons had unforeseen and irreparable consequences on both Japan and Russia."
"Instead of being permitted to sacrifice their lives in suicidal attacks on invading US and Soviet troops, the Japanese people were forced to endure the humiliation of surrender," Naryshkin said. "The comforts of martyrdom and oblivion were replaced by the degradation of foreign occupation by American imperialists."
"On top of this, the Soviet Union was denied its share of the spoils of war," Naryshkin added. "No army suffered more casualties during World War II than the Soviet Army. Yet, these gallant troops were blocked from taking the same benefits of rape and pillage they justly enjoyed over the Germans. Similarly, Japan's hasty capitulation deprived the Soviet government of its own zone-of-occupation within Japan. This allowed the United States to hog it all for themselves and shut out the progressive influences that Soviet occupation bestowed on East Germany and other eastern and central European states."
Retiring Comedy Central TV host Jon Stewart hailed Naryshkin's initiative as a vindication of his assertion that former President Harry Truman "was a war criminal for authorizing those bombings" and expressed a hope that "the United States will ultimately redeem itself for that atrocity by paying reparations to Japan."
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“these gallant troops were blocked from taking the same benefits of rape and pillage they justly enjoyed over the Germans.”
Ouch!
Phooey! I wanted to show you a thread on the AKfiles (a gun related discussion site) where there were handfuls of seriously butthurt people going on about how mean we Americans were to the Japs - but I can’t because the moderators chickened out and deleted it.
good one
From November of 1945 when the US/UK troops would have been sea-lifted from Germany over to the Pacific and the invasion finally started....it would have taken a minimum of eighteen months to finally say Japan was under control. The invasion itself would have made D-Day at Normandy look like a minor operation.
By the time you take in US causalities, Japanese troops in total sacrifice (no surrenders possible), civilians who got in the way or did their sacrifice, and then mass starvation for this period...it’s probably in the neighborhood of five million people dead. Total population in 1945 for 71 million.
I would offer this one observation. If we had taken the nuke bomb and just said we’d drop it on Mount Fuji (no warning or heads-up). And Japanese people woke up to realize half the mountain was gone the next day. Then given them seven days to surrender, they might have done so. But then today, we’d be branded as terrible people for wiping away half of Mount Fuji, and ending the war early and unfairly.
When you start a war.....you either finish it to the end or suffer the consequences.
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