Russian leaders call for international investigation into US atomic bombings of Japan

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110. Don't flatter yourself, Mr. David Irving

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I've actually read some archived discussions regarding Japan during WWII on this board, and in quite a few of them, you were doing your best to downplay the true extent of Imperial Japan's crimes during that era. You were like, "Imperial Japan was victim of bully-boys" or "Other nations committed crimes, too!", basically implying that this somehow absolved Japan of its crimes. Your posts seem like they were taken directly from the comments made by the typical extremist right wing Japanese revisionist. Kind of like the 50 centers who go around spouting their CCP propaganda.

Oh, and regarding Manchuria and Taiwan, I'm not quite sure if the people in the articles below would agree with your statements:

http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/taiwan/archives/2010/12/27/2003491990/1
http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/taiwan/archives/2014/01/13/2003581195
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unit_731

But I'm sure the "comfort girls" mentioned were just lowly sluts who were asking for it, right? Or just mere "collateral damage", as Bush put it.

And in regards to whether Imperial Japan's crimes were as bad as Nazi Germany, I think Chalmers Johnson, a major critic of US foreign policy, and the former president of the Japan Policy Research Institute, said it best when he stated:

"It may be pointless to try to establish which World War Two Axis aggressor, Germany or Japan, was the more brutal to the peoples it victimised. The Germans killed six million Jews and 20 million Russians [i.e. Soviet citizens]; the Japanese slaughtered as many as 30 million Filipinos, Malays, Vietnamese, Cambodians, Indonesians and Burmese, at least 23 million of them ethnic Chinese. Both nations looted the countries they conquered on a monumental scale, though Japan plundered more, over a longer period, than the Nazis. Both conquerors enslaved millions and exploited them as forced labourers—and, in the case of the Japanese, as [forced] prostitutes for front-line troops. If you were a Nazi prisoner of war from Britain, America, Australia, New Zealand or Canada (but not Russia) you faced a 4% chance of not surviving the war; [by comparison] the death rate for Allied POWs held by the Japanese was nearly 30%"

But of course, he's probably "full of shit", as you would put it.

EDIT: Oh, and I see that in the "228 thread" you posted recently, you stressed how the Japanese Empire was a civilizing power. Kind of like how the Third Reich built great highways, or how Bush "civilized" Iraq when he invaded that country. Typical.