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In reply to the discussion: Some facts on dropping the two bombs [View all]nadinbrzezinski
(154,021 posts)trying to talk to us, and that is one of the two factions in the high command. When the vote came, even after hiroshima and Nagasaki, it was 3:3 broken by the Emperor.
I cannot make this less gray than it was.
We can have the discussion, in my view, of the effects of the bomb, or why we used them, it was not just a demonstration to the Japanese people, and the high command. It was also about Iosef Stalin... but it was also about the Japanese high command. I will remind you, many of those officers committed Sepukku rather than see their land soiled by Gaijin.
Sorry if history is less clean than people want it to be. We are dealing with people after all, and people are crazy little critters that at times surprise you, since common sense is not what it should be, or as common as people think.