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How did the USSR react to the nuking of Japan? Did it declare it as a hostile act toward itself? Did the American Communist party praise it or condemn it? On Tue, Aug 12, 2014 at 10:29 AM, DW via Marxism < marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu> wrote: > ====================================================================== > Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. > ====================================================================== > > > The bomb wasn't dropped on Japan for 'racist' reasons. That the US was > racist and justified it's use in part for unstated racist reasons is partly > true; the idea that it did so as the main motivating factor shows a > misunderstanding of Imperialism. It would of used it on Berlin (or a > smaller city) if it the US/UK had one, say, after D-Day. The fact that the > US (and UK) is 'racist' doesn't really mean shit with regard to pounding an > enemy into the dirt. It didn't stop from killing *millions* of German > citizens in carpet bombing German cities with incendiaries (which is where > Curits LeMay go the idea from to do the same to Japanese cities). > > How is using the a-bomb really that much different than burning to death > millions of civilians with "convention means" (especially as far more died > from the conventional means than the nuclear ones). I suspect the civilians > being incinerated really didn't care about the distinction. > > The reason it used the A-Bomb in large part was to to stare down the USSR > bent on invading northern Japan, let the world know the new boss is in town > and to generally avoid further military actions like Operation Downfall > (assuming one buys into the controversial belief that an invasion of Japan > was imminent and the Japanese gov't was too divided to really offer > unconditional surrender terms). > > By July 1st, over 1.5 million Red Army troops were transferred to the > Soviet Far East for such a conflict (along with destroying the Japanese > army in Manchuria, whiich it did handily). On other hand, it's likely the > invasion would of come off rather badly given the situation the Red Army > faced in such an invasion, which almost mirrored the problem with Germans > had with regards to the total lack of dedicated landing craft AND some of > the best and experienced Japanese troops were in Hokkaido waiting for the > Russians should they have chosen to launch such an invasion. > > David > ________________________________________________ > Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu > Set your options at: > http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/sranz18%40gmail.com > ________________________________________________ Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
