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the Southern government was somewhat more democratic
lmao sure, that’s why they had mass killings of leftists that were covered up for decades
Historical inaccuracies aside, history should be taught in reverse order. Start with current events and teach why that happened. Then why that. On and on down the chain of causal events.
Hey remember when WW2 just happened, and then we beat the nazis and japan all by ourselves and everything was fine forever?
In High School we were debating if the bombings of Hiroshima/Nagasaki were justified (they absolutely weren’t) and the main argument that they were justified was that the IJA would never stop the war unless they’d done that, which is a bullshit argument to defend one of the worst atrocities of war ever committed, but whatever. Anyways, as the debate continued, one kid said “I think we should have bombed the ch*nks even if they would’ve stopped,” and that was the exact moment that I realized that my hometown was super racist.
Once the axis powers fell how the fuck would Japan have “continued to wage war”. I’m not an expert by any means but that line seems to only fly if you rely on the same chud logic about all west Asians being terrorists and zealots. Like they’re off on an island bro were they just going to suicide their whole country into california???
It was one hundred percent chud logic about all west asians being terrorists and zealots. People in that class acted like IJA soldiers were robots who would commit suicide if they sneezed.
We had the Japanese home islands completely blockaded. Their greatest battleship was sunk during a Kamikaze attack on that blockading armada. They were out of options, they were out of oil, they were out of manufacturing. It was just a matter of time, but the US didn’t want the Soviets getting involved so we incinerated tens of thousands of civilians and poisoned a whole generation more to demonstrate the girth of our Armydick.
the surrender of Japan had much more to do with USSR’s invasion of Manchuria & Korean peninsula
Japan’s fascist imperialist extraction of raw materials & industrial capacity from Korea & Manchuria was the only thing keeping them afloat… and once USSR broke the 1941 Soviet-Japanese neutrality agreement in early August 1945, the Japanese had no bargaining chip & had to sue for peace with the US
