Great video. THG is awesome overall as a channel, I highly recommend it.
Should have dropped the THIRD Bomb.
Yes there was one ready to go.
Even had liberal ass suckers back in the 40s.
What people don't comprehend is the atomic bombs might not have been the most devastating weapons of the war.
IMO the worst attacks were whole fire bombing cities. For example fire bombing Dresden and firebombing Tokyo.
99% of society in 2023 has no idea how savage and vicious full scale complete war can be.
I noticed that as well as did my coworkers. Needless to say, we were pissed about that. I watched a video (from PBS) last night where they sent in a ROV to examine the inside of what's left of the Arizona. It's from 2016 but it's a good video to watch if you have about an hour.yep, not one mention on MSM about Pearl? not that I have seen yet? WTF? are our memories so short we can't stop for 5 minutes to remember all those still entombed in those ships, and all those that died on this day![]()
TL;DR I missed the part where Japan surrendered to a Soviet General aboard a Russian scow and later established airbases upon Japanese soil.
Sure, they were signatories just as China, the United Kingdom, Australia, Canada, France, the Netherlands and New Zealand were aboard a sovereign US vessel - sovereign U.S. Territory. Never heard any of them try to take undue credit, the way the Johnny-come-lately Russians do.
Spin it any way you want, no other country did more to defeat Japan than the US did. That is a fact.
Again, scroll down your source.
What "fact" did I deny? I only denied your BS spin that the Soviets were the "deciding factor" in ending the war with Japan and pointed out through hyperbole to put this in context that if there was a singular Military Officer surrendered to, it was MacArthur as Supreme Commander for the Allied Powers aboard a US vessel and NOT to a Soviet aboard any Soviet vessel. And it was MacArthur that presided over the surrender ceremony as well as the post-war occupation. Yeah, the Soviet role was so significant they sent Kuzma Derevyanko, A UKRAINIAN LIEUTENANT-GENERAL as their representative who is barely a historical footnote.
Obviously the surrender was to the Allies et al. And of course the Soviets were principal members (as I have stated), but only once the Nazis betrayed them after their joint invasion of Poland and the Soviet invasions of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania and installation of puppet governments. Communist treachery only failed to Nazi treachery. Stalin playing both sides throughout the war was obvious. So treacherous that he even knew about the atom bomb through his spies long before Truman told him. Espionage, treachery, subjugation and thievery are the only characteristics that ever gave Soviets prominence in the world. Yeah, Soviets were so great those Baltic countries all got as far away as they could by joining NATO.
And the only reason for my reply in the first place was because I view that Russian propaganda line as disrespectful in this thread.
IMO you've bought into Russian hero worship to diminish the fact that the Soviet Union allied with the Nazis to begin the war and maintained neutrality with the Japs through most of it. Ironically, it was Nazi treachery that saved the Soviets. Well, that and the US entering the war. The Soviet role with Japan expedited their inevitable defeat, nothing more, nothing less.
The Soviets and Mother Russia do not deserve the accolades they seek.
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The Soviet Role in World War II: Realities and Myths
As the world marks the 75th anniversary of the end of World War II, it would be much better not only for the history of Russia but also for the country’s future if Russian leaders were willing to permit—and even encourage—a more even-handed discussion of the Soviet Union’s role in the war.daviscenter.fas.harvard.edu