jonnhytesta said:
PearlJam said:
Yes people always forget about the Soviet factor. They didn't help against Japan right away because they wanted to see if the Americans could handle it, and they felt they had done enough in Europe. After the Soviets saw that the Americans were going to struggle for a while, they declared war against Japan. Just imagine what would have happend if you had the Red army invade from the North, and the Americans come in from the South. This would have dragged on and the Soviets would have let the Americans take the majority of the casaulties,1 since the Soviets always felt that the other allies used them as cannon fodder for the Germans.
Japan would have been torn to shreds, and the people (specially women) would have suffered in terrible ways.2 Just look at how the Russian army raped the shit out of Germany after they were occupying them. The bombings were bad, but the other options were far worse.
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1. and that was totally true, the british, specially, used them all the time, because the couldnt handle the germans on their own. (ww1,ww2,etc)
2.the germans raped the shit out russia first, so much that even some nazis complained (yup, nazis asking for human rights, just imagine the things the germans did in russian soil). So the germans deserved that and more.
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I never said the Germans didn't deserve it, that's what you call payback. This is why I think Japan got off very easy.
