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Reminder that Japan proudly killed 20 million Chinese people in WW2, and the overwhelming majority of modern Japan still support their ancestors or deny that Japan did anything wrong to China (www.reddit.com)

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[–] moss_icon@hexbear.net 20 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

I’m not even trying to be a dick when I say that this is probably the worst take I’ve seen on here. One of the main reasons the US nuked Japan was to secure their hegemony and prevent the USSR from liberating them.

It is one of the worst war crimes the US has ever committed.