For me, that the Cold War began with the US wanting to stop Stalin's plans of imposing communism on the world. Did anybody else's curriculum portray Trotsky in a positive light? lmao it's funny to imagine the weirdos who write those textbooks were trots.
I'd heard the Japanese were in pretty awful strategic state, but i guess the common belief is that the military elite were so radicalised that they were willing to continue being imperialists to the very end, regardless how doomed their cause was. Would that be considered true?