Is this reopening an old rumor or justifying it?
I seem to remember hearing something a while back that one of the main reasons we ‘annihilated’ Japan was to keep the Russians out as they were getting ready to invade and we didn’t want another Europe type dividing the spoils.
Of course, since the victors write the History books that theory may have been established as giving Japan a ‘we saved you from Russian domination’....
Maybe that is where the phrase ‘We must destroy your village to save it’ was originated...<: <: <:
If the Russian’s had occupied Hokkaido. There would have been a Socialist Republic of Northern Japan -SRNJ or a Socialist Republic of Hokkaido - SRH. Korea would have been all communist. Maybe SRNJ (SRH) merged together with a communist Korea. (This time the Koreans dominate!)
In short a different North Pacific if not a very different Pacific from what we have now.
I’ll take what we have now!
“I seem to remember hearing something a while back that one of the main reasons we ‘annihilated’ Japan was to keep the Russians out as they were getting ready to invade and we didn’t want another Europe type dividing the spoils.”
We dropped the Bombs hoping that Japan would surrender so that we wouldn’t have to invade the Home Islands and incur the projected one million casualties that Operation Downfall would have cost.