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Originally posted by Secret_Agent_Man
Well, that's good thinking.
Not sure the East Germans or Poles or Hungarians, etc. would have thanked us at the time -- or even in retrospect, with perfect knowledge of their possible alternate future.
Oh -- you mean "wherever we think Stalin is" (i.e. drop it on Russia) -- pretty sure the average Russian would not have thanked us at the time -- or even in retrospect.
S_A_M
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Stalin's regime may not have been as sinister as Hitlers, but it was a close second. But the Japanese Regime was not even close to being as bad as Germany and Russia. Don't get me wrong, they were really bad - rape of Nanking and all that. But even as bad as they were they did not hold a candle to Russia under Stalin and Hitler under Germany. Yet - people on this board find it so troubling that I would want to use the A bomb to put an end to Stalins reign of terror over half of Europe but think it was OK to use the Atomic bomb to take out Tojo's regime.
The - well they did not attack us line doesn't make sense to me either. They attacked other countries, and in addition, we didn't have to demand unconditional surrender. We didn't have to nuke Japan. We did it because we wanted to institute regime change for "world and US security". But wouldn't the US and the world had been better of if we let Tojo stay and took Stalin out?
