Hey USA why did you drop an atomic bomb on a defeated country that was ready to surrender, anyway?

  • nat_turner_overdrive [he/him]
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    3 days ago

    they also kept the Jews in the prison camps for months and up to a few years, and thousands of them died of malnutrition and disease after the end of the war, while still in camps. Also, General Patton refused orders to keep the Nazi prisoners and Jews separate, because he thought the Nazis were the best suited to keeping Jews in line. This means that after the war, the Nazis were prisoners and capos in charge of all the Jews they hated.

    We are the fourth reich

    • imogen_underscore [it/its, she/her]
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      Patton basically wanted to continue the war of extermination. from Losurdo's Stalin:

      Take the example of general George S. Patton. He dreams of an immediate war against the Soviets: “We will have to fight them sooner or later [...]. Why not now while our army is still intact and while we can push all those damn Russians all the way back to Moscow in three months? We could easily do it with the German troops that we have, just arm them and take them with us. They hate those bastards." Unfortunately, according to the American general, it’s the Jews who oppose this project. Full of resentment toward Germany, they harbor sympathy for the USSR: the “evident Semitic influence in the press” aims “to promote communism." There clearly emerges a line of continuity with the Nazi understanding of communism as a subversive Judeo-Bolshevik conspiracy: the enemies continue to be the communists, the Soviets and the Jews, the latter being “lower than animals."

  • BodyBySisyphus [he/him]
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    3 days ago

    "The United States didn't defeat fascism, it discreetly internationalized it": an all-time banger quote

    • SorosFootSoldier [he/him, they/them]
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      3 days ago

      USA not beating the allegations that the only reason it joined the war was to get footholds in Europe and Asia against communism.

      • Skeleton_Erisma [they/them, any]
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        3 days ago

        I've pointed this out to libs and some have told me "yeah but it doesn't make the institution fundamentally bad".

        what-the-hell

      • ssj2marx@lemmy.ml
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        3 days ago

        America's clash with Japan (before and after Pearl Harbor) was always better explained by the phenomenon of two empires expanding into the same place. Like the Romans and the Carthaginians fighting over the Mediterranean.

    • ssj2marx@lemmy.ml
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      3 days ago

      Imagining a Hitman-esque assassination game set in 1950 where you're a Soviet agent whose infiltrated these guys in order to kill as many former Nazi party members as possible.

  • Salmarez [he/him, comrade/them]
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    3 days ago

    And same thing on the Pacific Front: MacArthur kept most the murderous Japanese war criminals and Zaibatsu on the line. But hey, at least he executed Hideki Tojo and and some other war criminals who owned him too much on the Pacific.

      • ssj2marx@lemmy.ml
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        3 days ago

        They also did that with the South Vietnamese government, but some plucky rebels came along and fixed that problem.

  • mayo_cider [he/him]
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    3 days ago

    USA was a hesitant ally from the get-go, Japan just fucked up the game

    The bombs were a revenge for forcing them to fight against fascists

  • batsforpeace [any, any]
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    3 days ago

    little tidbit about US and allies ordering Japanese troops to hold their positions in various parts of Asia to fight communism instead of returning to Japan after capitulation