'US bombed Hiroshima to intimidate Soviets'

Japan's mourning the victims of the American Atomic bomb that was dropped on HiroSHEma 65 years ago. Around 140 thousand people were killed by the blast and sebsequent fallout. I spoke to Historian Jacques Pauwels who told me he believes that by bombing Hiroshima, the U.S. was trying to intimidate the USSR

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[ratatabatata]

@MrRoastedgrapes Fox is lie, Russian government lie, US government obviously lie

[KimInLosAngeles]

Japanese were as evil as Nazis.

They abducted 200,000 Asians (& Caucasians), raped them up to 50 times a day & then buried them alive to save bullets when they became sick.

*Japanese govt won't apologize to any of the surviving sex slaves.

*It STILL sugercoats this by outrageously lying that the victims were whores who volunteered to service Japanese & received great treatment & even bigger salary than Japanese army generals from Japan.

GOOGLE: Jan Ruff O'Herne - Japanese military sex slave

[KJLesnick]

Did the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombing have any real effect on Russia in actuality?

[theSicilianToe]

@KimInLosAngeles On the contrary, Japan has never owned up to their bio chemical weapons facilities and has never apologized for their war crimes. The same number of people that dont know about comfort women, dont know about this either. The Japanese got away with not apologizing for anything they did during the second World War, and Sino-Jap wars. Have a good day to you too :)

[KimInLosAngeles]

@theSicilianToe

You mean, Unit 731 - Japanese human experimentations on thousands of civilians from Russia, China, & Korea?

Even much less # of people know about the Japanese military sex slaves (Comfort Women).

Japanese don't lie about Unit 731 since they gave medical records to the US in exchange for their lives (the US promised not to court-martial them for war crimes), but they lie through their teeth about the Japanese military sex slaves.

BTW, have a nice day!

[theSicilianToe]

@KimInLosAngeles Why dont you mention Japans Bio Chemical Weapons facilities set up all over Manchuria.

[theSicilianToe]

lol while this is partially true, its more bullshit then anything, and russia is so full of itself.

[eston95]

@thetitleisgorgeous we are not and why should we be we ended a war the nazi people and japanesse raped burned pillaged and killed way more than our 2 bombs did and also we ended further blood shed

[eston95]

we didnt drop the bomb to intimidate any one but we did drop it to end a war

[mrman26]

Maybe the Russians should apologize for specifically tailoring their military uniforms so that soldiers could more efficiently rape the German women. True fact.

[mrman26]

Monday morning quarterbacking at a whole new level....gotta love the silly Ruskies.

[mrman26]

@thetitleisgorgeous The Japanese had it coming after what they did to Pearl Harbor, and after the Bataan death march. The Japanese people were fanatical about fighting to the death, and only a shocking blow like a nuclear bomb could end the war. The Japanese were so stubborn that it took two A-bombs to do it. The Americans themselves didn't fully understand how destructive it would be. That's all history now. Japan and America are now allies again, and the world is better for it.