VICTORY DAY: China’s🇨🇳 overlooked role in World War 2:
China lost 20 MILLION people during WW2, second only to the Soviet Union which lost 27 million people.
Between 400K-700K of Imperial Japan’s soldiers were killed by Chinese forces resisting Japanese occupation.
Imperial Japan’s occupation of China during WW2 was one of the greatest atrocities in human history. Some of the worst horrors included:
Nanjing Massacre (1937–1938)
Approximately 200,000–300,000 Chinese civilians and surrendered soldiers murdered in six weeks. Mass rape, beheadings, live burials, and executions were carried out systematically.
Unit 731 Biological Experiments
Thousands of Chinese civilians and prisoners were subjected to vivisection without anesthesia, plague testing, frostbite experiments, and chemical weapons testing. Historians estimate 10,000+ died directly in the experiments, while biological warfare campaigns caused up to 200,000 additional civilian deaths.
Three Alls Policy (“Kill All, Burn All, Loot All”)
Japanese counterinsurgency campaign across northern China that destroyed villages and massacred civilians. Chinese estimates place the death toll at 2.7 million civilians.
Forced Labor and Slave Camps
Millions of Chinese civilians were used as forced labor under brutal conditions. Hundreds of thousands died from starvation, torture, disease, and executions.
Chemical and Biological Warfare
Imperial Japan repeatedly used poison gas and biological weapons against Chinese troops and civilians despite international bans. Tens of thousands were killed directly, with epidemics spreading far wider.
Mass Sexual Slavery (“Comfort Women”)
An estimated 100,000–200,000 women, many Chinese and Korean, were forced into military sexual slavery by the Japanese Army.
Zhejiang-Jiangxi Campaign (1942)
After the Doolittle Raid, Japanese forces massacred civilians accused of helping American airmen. Around 250,000 Chinese civilians were killed.
Footage: China’s celebrations commemorating victory over Imperial Japan in 2025.
🇨🇳China tackled its waste problem by building over 1,000 waste-to-energy plants, using a 150-year-old technology on a massive scale.
Now, some cities even import trash to keep the system running. Turning pollution into power has become a global model!