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re: Why don't we hear more about the Russians helping to end WWII in the Pacific?
Posted on 5/31/16 at 12:19 pm to Emteein
Posted on 5/31/16 at 12:19 pm to Emteein
They didn't help at all. They didn't give two shits about manchuria, China nor Korea until we had Japan beat.
They declared war on Japan very late and while they did capture Manchuria, their efforts were more to spread communism than to liberate.
In fact had we gone ahead with the invasion of Japan and Russian been given the green light to invade Hokkaido while we invaded Honshu and Kyushu, we probably would have had a Japanese war like we had a Korean and Vietnam war.
Hell the nukes saved Japan from going partially red for sure.
In hindsight, we should have listened to Patton and took out Russia while they were weak.
They declared war on Japan very late and while they did capture Manchuria, their efforts were more to spread communism than to liberate.
In fact had we gone ahead with the invasion of Japan and Russian been given the green light to invade Hokkaido while we invaded Honshu and Kyushu, we probably would have had a Japanese war like we had a Korean and Vietnam war.
Hell the nukes saved Japan from going partially red for sure.
In hindsight, we should have listened to Patton and took out Russia while they were weak.
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Posted on 5/31/16 at 12:21 pm to Napoleon
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In hindsight, we should have listened to Patton and took out Russia while they were weak.
Probably, but would the space race ever happened had we done so?
Posted on 5/31/16 at 12:21 pm to Napoleon
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In hindsight, we should have listened to Patton and took out Russia while they were weak.
To be fair, the 3rd Army would have had trouble with 300-something divisions the Red Army had at the time.
We had an army, and they had an army. We would have hit the same buzzsaw that chewed up the finest divisions of the Wermacht and Waffen SS. Just to keep things completely in perspective.
Posted on 5/31/16 at 3:04 pm to Napoleon
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They didn't give two shits about manchuria, China nor Korea until we had Japan beat.
Again, see my first post in this thread. The USSR was actively involved in Manchuria during the 1930's supporting the Chinese communists there.
In fact, Marshal Zhukov beat the Japanese Army in 1939 in Mongolia in a battle that had nearly 100,000 casualties.
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