the possibility of a Japanese socialist republic makes me sad, so many Japanese writers from the pre and post WW2 era opined the possibility of an equal humanist society as promised by the Soviet Union
even stalin's conservative form of socialism would have been a huge material improvement for Japanese proletarians and peasants than the fascistic dictatorship during the showa era
The Soviet Union did seize Sakhalin from the Japanese empire, which is part of the Japanese island chain (although it has more Ainu and Koreans than Yamato and so was probably hostile to the empire to begin with)
A great movie that illustrates the friendship between a red army soldier and an ainu man is Kurosawa's Dersu Uzala. Surprisingly heartwarming and low-key, although still dramatic and moving in its own way
the possibility of a Japanese socialist republic makes me sad, so many Japanese writers from the pre and post WW2 era opined the possibility of an equal humanist society as promised by the Soviet Union
even stalin's conservative form of socialism would have been a huge material improvement for Japanese proletarians and peasants than the fascistic dictatorship during the showa era
The Soviet Union did seize Sakhalin from the Japanese empire, which is part of the Japanese island chain (although it has more Ainu and Koreans than Yamato and so was probably hostile to the empire to begin with)
A great movie that illustrates the friendship between a red army soldier and an ainu man is Kurosawa's Dersu Uzala. Surprisingly heartwarming and low-key, although still dramatic and moving in its own way