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RE: Popular Narratives Of History Are Naive

in #history • 5 years ago

What saved Japan's bacon in the end was the division of the world into the US led capitalist bloc and the Soviet led socialist bloc.

The Korean War was a big part of that. The U.S. needed to industrialize Japan fast. Note that Japanese war criminals as a whole got off much easier than their German counterparts.

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    The Korean War was a big part of that. The U.S. needed to industrialize Japan fast.

    I think the best thing to ever result from the Cold War was the lack of war between major industrialized nations, which had a lot to do with a much more fair system of international trade than before.

    Note that Japanese war criminals as a whole got off much easier than their German counterparts.

    Yes, that is unfortunately true. And there were some very serious war crimes that didn't result in a trial and a conviction at all.

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