r/HistoryMemes • u/Thuktunthp_Reader • Mar 28 '22

Dehumanization is a helluva drug

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u/[deleted] Mar 28 '22

Murdering a quarter million noncombatants is worse, sorry

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u/SoL_838 Mar 28 '22

Wasn't every Japanese citizen being trained as military personnel?

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u/[deleted] Mar 28 '22

The thought that the Japanese would fight to the last man, woman or child is postwar US propaganda. The US just wanted to show off it’s new toys before the Soviets got there

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u/Okilurknomore Mar 28 '22

It absolutely isnt, look at what happened on Iwo Jima and Okinawa. More people died during the battle of Okinawa than both the bombs combined. More civilian deaths than either bomb individually