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2021-12-14 China-Japan-Koreas
Photoplay: Anniversary of the Nanjing Massacre
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited

Commentary from Russian military journalist Boris Rozhin

See the photos at the link

[ColonelCassad] In China today, mourning events are held to mark the next anniversary of the Nanjing massacre, when the troops of the Japanese Empire captured Nanjing in the winter of 1937 and massacred more than 300,000 civilians and prisoners of war.

In principle, already on this story in stories about "samurai honor" and the like, one can put an end to it.

Today, a country that did something similar in the Second World War and which it lost while still under American occupation, dares to open its mouth again over the Chinese rights to Taiwan and the Russian rights to the Kuril Islands.

Japan should be reminded of this more often to remember how and why she parted with the Kuril Islands and not only with them. Otherwise, she doesn't want to make peace.

Posted by badanov 2021-12-14 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11134 views ]  Top

#1 Nanjing gets the press. Manila doesn't. Doesn't fit the Left's narrative.
Posted by Procopius2k 2021-12-14 07:24||   2021-12-14 07:24|| Front Page Top

#2 China waves the bloody shirt to try to get its people ready for war; the Philippines doesn't want war.
Posted by Rob Crawford 2021-12-14 08:43||   2021-12-14 08:43|| Front Page Top

#3 ..it was a US Territory scheduled for independence in 1946. It's buried because the Left's narrative is the bombs and America evil.
Posted by Procopius2k 2021-12-14 08:54||   2021-12-14 08:54|| Front Page Top

#4 There are those in Japan who tell a different version of this story. Those who were massacred, they say, were not civilians but Chiang Kai-shek's soldiers who had shed their uniforms in a cowardly attempt to avoid fighting.
Posted by Abu Uluque 2021-12-14 12:21||   2021-12-14 12:21|| Front Page Top

#5 Some of that may be true but vintage images fromthe era of bayoneted women and children in piles gives a lie to any idea that rhe Japanese Army acted in a civilised manner.
Posted by NoMoreBS 2021-12-14 14:14||   2021-12-14 14:14|| Front Page Top

#6 Japanese chauvinists have a long history of denying the facts of their nation's culpability for the Nanking Massacre and other atrocities which were too much for even their Nazi allies:

"so brutal were the Japanese in Nanking that even the Nazis in the city were shocked. John Rabe, a German businessman who led the local Nazi party, joined other foreigners in working tirelessly to save the innocent from slaughter by creating a safety zone where some 250,000 civilians found shelter...."
Posted by Merrick Ferret 2021-12-14 14:39||   2021-12-14 14:39|| Front Page Top

#7 Japanese chauvinists have a long history of denying the facts of their nation's culpability for the Nanking Massacre and other atrocities which were too much for even their Nazi allies:

Actually, they did apologize for their war in China, but Mao, Chinese leader at the time, said there was no need. Because of the Japanese invasion Mao's kommies were able to gain power in the end.

It is worth noting at this point that the Chinese nationalists did nearly all the fighting and dying, but it was Mao's kommies that wound up winning.
Posted by badanov 2021-12-14 17:52||   2021-12-14 17:52|| Front Page Top

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