@catothesaltman@3xcalibaneur man lol in the post-napoleonic war, the british empire were letting literal war hero officers die in poverty. soldiers who served under them would had gofundmes for them in the local newspaper
the choice to surrender by showa was already basically made on august 8th, one day before nagasaki and the soviet invasion of manchuria. another westoid uninterested in actual historical record for more pop history slop that so happens to lean towards the soviets
The reason US schools teach students that Japan surrendered bc of the nukes, is bc if they told us that it was bc the USSR liberated more Japanese territory in less than a month than the US did in four years, it would make it seem like the USSR/Communists won WWII singlehandedly
@estrourge i really like the idea of someone taking a picture of the worst ice tray ever some time in the 20s with an weird ancient camera that has a timestamp instead of like a phone camera
@splitzerr1@VenturCommunist@prostatefagcel i’m curious as to what the author means by nuclear war too. i thought soviet doctrine incorporated tactical nuclear weapons to be used on urban or densely defended areas in the case of a european front going hot
@JackLanter8402@maxnotdavid@fangboy_xxx no they didn’t die for your right to point that out, McCarthy made sure that your type didn’t have the right to do that