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Japan’s “great ally”, USA, used to boil flesh off of Japanese skulls and send them home as war trophies and gifts to their sweeties back home. (rarehistoricalphotos.com)

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[–] Wakmrow@hexbear.net 0 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Maybe I have an edgy take but I really don't care about brutality against Japanese imperialists. I hold them as much more evil than the Nazis during the 20th century.

[–] BurgerPunk@hexbear.net 8 points 1 month ago

I don't care about the deaths of fascists. That doesn't make it less sick to take skulls as trophies.

The point is Amero-fascists are also barbarous and always have been. The "war is hell" handwaving getting invoked doesn't mean you can't talk about crimes. The sane way i wouldn't handwave away the many crimes of the Japanese fascists

[–] dessalines@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 month ago

That is edgy. Stalin virulently rebuked war crimes against Nazi Germany's civilians and POWs as it pushed them back.

By contrast, the brutality, starvation, and high death rates for nazi POWs held by the US in western europe during and after ww2 is not a story most ppl know about. Losurdo gets into this a bit, as well as contrasts the nazi's position that the slavic ppl must be eradicated and made into slaves, while the USSR's position was that germany and the german ppl will go on after the war, and efforts should be made to not follow the nazi's scorched earth policy.