Russia urges Japan to ‘fully recognize’ World War II results
Russia urges Japan to ‘fully recognize’ World War II results
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Russia urges Japan to ‘fully recognize’ World War II results
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Lavrov is just pissed that Japan attacked Pearl Harbor and set off the chain of events that led to the US entering WWII, defeating the Nazis, and getting The Bomb first.
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who can trust the horseface lavrov.
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If I used him as a Lavrovtory, I wouldn't even trust him to hold my piss.
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oh yeah because having russia closer to your country is a great thing. just ask ukraine.
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Fun fact: USSR dragged its tail until WW2 almost ended before entering war against Japan.
Term "Great Patriotic War" that Russians use to describe WW2 doesn't just exclude pre-1941 events, but also war in Pacific.
And Soviets were the opposite of helping in Pacific front - denying requests to use their airfields, detaining pilots doing emergency landings in there etc. etc.
Stalin even wrote to Roosevelt that USSR is not obligated to help allies in Pacific because USSR isn't at war with Japan. 🌝
I don't really get the point of this comment... I'm no fan of the USSR, but am I supposed to be mad at them about this? They weren't at war with Japan. They were a little busy defending their homeland, and I don't believe Japan ever directly attacked them (someone will probably prove me wrong about this).
Yeah the soviet's had enough going on without opening up a second front.
Ah, come on, people "busy defending their homeland" still had plenty of time to invade Iran, and grab all the Baltics in "liberation efforts" (and no, Baltics weren't part of Axis like, for example, Romania or Hungary).
But anyway - losing that many people is an absolutely valid point for why not to send forces, but my comment was about refusal to cooperate with allies at all - not lending airfields, detaining allied pilots doing emergency landings (they were detained until war ended too).
Soviets did eventually march in Japan, to grab some land for themselves (not that I condemn it, Japan was part of big bad after all), but before that for some time question wasn't even about them directly joining the war as about letting allies use Soviet logistic hubs to launch offensives from far east, circumventing Pacific theater.
This is ahistorical, while the Soviet Union wasn't at war with Japan until the late stages they provided critical support to the Chinese Communists and Nationalists who had been fighting the Japanese since 1937 and forced the creation of the Second Unified Front against Japan (the Nationalist-Communist coalition that eventually drove Japan out of China). The Nationalists were so against uniting with those dirty Commies against Japan that Chiang had to be physically kidnapped and kept on house arrest until he would agree to form the Second Front!
There's a lot you can criticize the Soviet Union for, but their fight against fascism during the first half of the 20th century was not one of them.
Sources: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xi%27an_Incident
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_United_Front
There were lots of things he could've done different that would have assured victory over both the Communists (whom he had forced into compete retreat) and the Japanese. But hindsight is hindsight.
The Soviets had promised at Yalta to enter the war in the Pacific within 3 months of the war ending in Europe. And they did launch an attack on Manchuria at 3 months to the day. Hardly feet dragging.
In fact, them being about to launch the attack, was one of the deciding factors on Truman dropping the nukes on Japan. He wanted to prevent the Soviets fron capturing territory that they would be reluctant to give up in the end. And he also knew that the USSR entering the war in the pacific would be what really pushed Japan to surrender. He didn't want to lose the opportunity to show off the new toys to scare the Soviets.
So not doing something until being forced into a commitment and then waiting until the last possible moment to Honor that commitment is somehow not feet dragging to you?
I actually thought this is common knowledge. But looks like it isn’t everywhere.
the commies on lemmy love to hang on to their we beat the nazis shite as well, i think there's a soviet sniper picture doing the rounds right now.
if stalin wasn't such an abusive shit he wouldn't have killed so many millions of his own