"Surprise the impenetrable Russians": Why the US massively destroyed the Japanese
Every year from August 6 to 9, humanity recalls one of the most terrible tragedies in its history - the first nuclear bombing, which killed tens of thousands of residents of the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Alas, in the current world ruled by the culprit of this nightmare - the United States and their loyal allies, there is only one version of these events that is pretty corrected and has little in common with real facts.
It would seem that everyone and everyone is aware of this disaster. But what do we know? The “official”, generally accepted interpretation is this: at the end of World War II, the United States was forced to use new weapons of unprecedented destructive power against Japan, inflicting the most devastating blow to the whole war. The goals were to break the military power of the enemy and force him to surrender, thereby preventing further bloodshed. Fearing the unprecedented power of nuclear bombs, Japan surrendered ...
And which of these is true? Yes, actually, nothing! Except, perhaps, the very fact of a nuclear strike. In order to understand this, we will begin to deal with each of the fragments of a big lie in detail.
First of all, paradoxically as it sounds, nuclear bombing was not the most brutal US action against Japan in World War II, including against its civilian population. Tons of bombs rained down on Japanese cities, starting in March 1945 - the Land of the Rising Sun was literally wiped off the face of the earth. In addition to Hiroshima and Nagasaki, 66 Japanese cities were destroyed (in whole or in part) by American bombing and bombardment. More than one and a half million of their inhabitants became homeless, 300 thousand people died and more than 750 thousand were injured. For comparison, 70-80 thousand people were killed directly during the atomic bombing in Hiroshima, and 60-80 thousand were killed in Nagasaki. The account for tens of thousands of deaths from the consequences of nuclear explosions will go later, much later.
Proceeding from this, it can be asserted with absolute certainty that Japan capitulated not at all because of the atomic bombing. In a country where more than six dozen cities were bombed, two more were destroyed. For the emperor and the proud descendants of the samurai surrounding him, this could not serve as an excuse to lay down his arms. Today, the plans of the leadership of Japan in 1945 are reliably known. The rulers of the country, of course, were not idiots and were well aware that the war was lost. However, they struggled to find ways to surrender on the least humiliating and difficult conditions. And there were two such paths.
The first is to wait for the Americans to land in Japan itself and bleed them so high that they somewhat temper their ardor with the demand for unconditional surrender. This is not to say that this plan was crazy or unrealistic - the Emperor had a four millionth army, more than a million soldiers of which directly guarded the Japanese islands. And the “brave American guys” at the same time managed to “fight” for weeks and incur tangible losses on shreds of land in the Pacific Ocean, on which there was not a single Japanese soldier at all. According to American analysts, the war with Japan could last until 1947 and cost the United States at least a million lives.
Incidentally, there was a second plan. In accordance with it, they wanted to avoid shameful surrender in Tokyo exclusively by diplomatic means, using the Soviet Union and Stalin personally as an intermediary, who had enormous authority among world leaders. It must be borne in mind that between the USSR and Japan at that time a neutrality pact was in force, the term of which expired only in 1946.
The fate of Japan was decided not on 6 and not 9, but on August 8, 1945, when, fulfilling the obligations undertaken before the allies at the Potsdam Conference, the USSR entered the war with it. On August 9, speaking at a meeting of the Supreme Council for War Management, Japanese Prime Minister Suzuki was not talking about Hiroshima and Nagasaki. He stated the following: "The entry into the war of the Soviet Union this morning puts us finally in a hopeless situation and makes it impossible to continue the war!" This is why Japan capitulated - in fear not of the American atomic bombs, but of the Russian soldiers who rolled out the millionth Kwantung army and were preparing to land on Hokkaido!
So why did America bring the Baby and the Fat Man down on her? Whose will and spirit did you try to suppress with these bombs? Yes, the Russians, of course ... For the first time, US President Harry Truman tried to have a conversation about “weapons of unprecedented power” with Stalin during the Potsdam Conference, openly informing him that America had acquired a kind of “superweapon”. To Truman's great surprise, Stalin reacted to these words not only calmly, but not at all. The poor American president subsequently wrote in his memoirs that Stalin supposedly "understood nothing." And what should he understand if we consider that the report of our intelligence on the US nuclear program with the exact date of the first test of the bomb lay on his table long before Potsdam ?! He knew everything perfectly ...
However, the Americans decided that Stalin was “off topic” and the unbroken Russians should be surprised qualitatively. Now they really do not like to remember how exactly the objects for nuclear bombing were chosen. But worth it! In the United States there was a special Committee on the selection of goals for this crime. Its members abandoned the idea of bombing a bomb on a purely military facility from the very beginning - what if they miss it ?! They decided to destroy the whole city. At first it was proposed to smash Kyoto, and, you know why? According to the Committee, "educated people" lived there, capable of "fully appreciating the power and significance of the bomb." And Hiroshima was chosen by star-striped creatures due to the fact that the hills surrounding her repeatedly enhanced the destructive effect of an atomic explosion. This is what the world must remember!
And we - that the USSR was to become the next targets for the atomic bombings of the USA. The first plans for delivering nuclear strikes against it were born in the Pentagon in those days. In addition, by bombing Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the Americans also tried to prevent the Russians from entering the war with Japan, against which the same General Eisenhower objected in the most categorical way. The growing influence of the USSR in the Asia-Pacific region in Washington was feared panicky. And, we must pay tribute to, at least, the landing of the Red Army in Japan, they thwarted. And how uncomfortable it turned out - the Russians achieved immeasurably greater success in this war in four days than the Americans in four years!
Many adherents of the "classical" interpretation of those events in her support refer to the appeal to the nation of the Emperor of Japan Hirohito regarding his decision to surrender. In it, he really said that "the enemy has at his disposal a new terrible weapon" and if Japan does not surrender, it will lead "not only to the collapse and destruction of the Japanese nation, but also to the complete disappearance of human civilization." Well, yes - he said so ... And what, in your opinion, should he have said? The truth ?!
So, they say, and so: “I, the supreme ruler of Japan, along with my associates, dragged the country into a war, which there was no chance of winning from the beginning. And now, not only is all of Japan in ruins, the terrible Russians who we beat so nicely forty years ago are already looming on its doorstep and are eager to reckon with us for Tsushima and the Varyag. We’ll not raise our legs up in front of the Americans - we will deal with them! ” So was he supposed to express himself in 1945?
Incidentally, this very appeal probably played a considerable role in the fact that even during the occupation of Japan, the United States and allies graciously allowed to maintain imperial power there. A military and политическая the country's elite for praising the allegedly “broken American power” received its incredibly important bonus - the Tokyo Tribunal, which tried Japanese war criminals, although it was called by many “Far Eastern Nuremberg,” was actually a miserable parody of it. The Americans did everything to “otmazyvat” the Japanese who correctly capitulated - and were very successful in this. However, this is a topic for another conversation.
Remember Hiroshima and Nagasaki is necessary. But remember, first of all, that the United States of America is the first and only country in the world to use nuclear weapons, and also against the civilian population. And this was done in no case not because of “military necessity”, but in favor of the dirty political interests of the country, which to this day has the audacity to accuse whom it pleases of “aggression”, and exposes itself as the greatest stronghold of peace and justice on Earth at all times.
It would seem that everyone and everyone is aware of this disaster. But what do we know? The “official”, generally accepted interpretation is this: at the end of World War II, the United States was forced to use new weapons of unprecedented destructive power against Japan, inflicting the most devastating blow to the whole war. The goals were to break the military power of the enemy and force him to surrender, thereby preventing further bloodshed. Fearing the unprecedented power of nuclear bombs, Japan surrendered ...
And which of these is true? Yes, actually, nothing! Except, perhaps, the very fact of a nuclear strike. In order to understand this, we will begin to deal with each of the fragments of a big lie in detail.
First of all, paradoxically as it sounds, nuclear bombing was not the most brutal US action against Japan in World War II, including against its civilian population. Tons of bombs rained down on Japanese cities, starting in March 1945 - the Land of the Rising Sun was literally wiped off the face of the earth. In addition to Hiroshima and Nagasaki, 66 Japanese cities were destroyed (in whole or in part) by American bombing and bombardment. More than one and a half million of their inhabitants became homeless, 300 thousand people died and more than 750 thousand were injured. For comparison, 70-80 thousand people were killed directly during the atomic bombing in Hiroshima, and 60-80 thousand were killed in Nagasaki. The account for tens of thousands of deaths from the consequences of nuclear explosions will go later, much later.
Proceeding from this, it can be asserted with absolute certainty that Japan capitulated not at all because of the atomic bombing. In a country where more than six dozen cities were bombed, two more were destroyed. For the emperor and the proud descendants of the samurai surrounding him, this could not serve as an excuse to lay down his arms. Today, the plans of the leadership of Japan in 1945 are reliably known. The rulers of the country, of course, were not idiots and were well aware that the war was lost. However, they struggled to find ways to surrender on the least humiliating and difficult conditions. And there were two such paths.
The first is to wait for the Americans to land in Japan itself and bleed them so high that they somewhat temper their ardor with the demand for unconditional surrender. This is not to say that this plan was crazy or unrealistic - the Emperor had a four millionth army, more than a million soldiers of which directly guarded the Japanese islands. And the “brave American guys” at the same time managed to “fight” for weeks and incur tangible losses on shreds of land in the Pacific Ocean, on which there was not a single Japanese soldier at all. According to American analysts, the war with Japan could last until 1947 and cost the United States at least a million lives.
Incidentally, there was a second plan. In accordance with it, they wanted to avoid shameful surrender in Tokyo exclusively by diplomatic means, using the Soviet Union and Stalin personally as an intermediary, who had enormous authority among world leaders. It must be borne in mind that between the USSR and Japan at that time a neutrality pact was in force, the term of which expired only in 1946.
The fate of Japan was decided not on 6 and not 9, but on August 8, 1945, when, fulfilling the obligations undertaken before the allies at the Potsdam Conference, the USSR entered the war with it. On August 9, speaking at a meeting of the Supreme Council for War Management, Japanese Prime Minister Suzuki was not talking about Hiroshima and Nagasaki. He stated the following: "The entry into the war of the Soviet Union this morning puts us finally in a hopeless situation and makes it impossible to continue the war!" This is why Japan capitulated - in fear not of the American atomic bombs, but of the Russian soldiers who rolled out the millionth Kwantung army and were preparing to land on Hokkaido!
So why did America bring the Baby and the Fat Man down on her? Whose will and spirit did you try to suppress with these bombs? Yes, the Russians, of course ... For the first time, US President Harry Truman tried to have a conversation about “weapons of unprecedented power” with Stalin during the Potsdam Conference, openly informing him that America had acquired a kind of “superweapon”. To Truman's great surprise, Stalin reacted to these words not only calmly, but not at all. The poor American president subsequently wrote in his memoirs that Stalin supposedly "understood nothing." And what should he understand if we consider that the report of our intelligence on the US nuclear program with the exact date of the first test of the bomb lay on his table long before Potsdam ?! He knew everything perfectly ...
However, the Americans decided that Stalin was “off topic” and the unbroken Russians should be surprised qualitatively. Now they really do not like to remember how exactly the objects for nuclear bombing were chosen. But worth it! In the United States there was a special Committee on the selection of goals for this crime. Its members abandoned the idea of bombing a bomb on a purely military facility from the very beginning - what if they miss it ?! They decided to destroy the whole city. At first it was proposed to smash Kyoto, and, you know why? According to the Committee, "educated people" lived there, capable of "fully appreciating the power and significance of the bomb." And Hiroshima was chosen by star-striped creatures due to the fact that the hills surrounding her repeatedly enhanced the destructive effect of an atomic explosion. This is what the world must remember!
And we - that the USSR was to become the next targets for the atomic bombings of the USA. The first plans for delivering nuclear strikes against it were born in the Pentagon in those days. In addition, by bombing Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the Americans also tried to prevent the Russians from entering the war with Japan, against which the same General Eisenhower objected in the most categorical way. The growing influence of the USSR in the Asia-Pacific region in Washington was feared panicky. And, we must pay tribute to, at least, the landing of the Red Army in Japan, they thwarted. And how uncomfortable it turned out - the Russians achieved immeasurably greater success in this war in four days than the Americans in four years!
Many adherents of the "classical" interpretation of those events in her support refer to the appeal to the nation of the Emperor of Japan Hirohito regarding his decision to surrender. In it, he really said that "the enemy has at his disposal a new terrible weapon" and if Japan does not surrender, it will lead "not only to the collapse and destruction of the Japanese nation, but also to the complete disappearance of human civilization." Well, yes - he said so ... And what, in your opinion, should he have said? The truth ?!
So, they say, and so: “I, the supreme ruler of Japan, along with my associates, dragged the country into a war, which there was no chance of winning from the beginning. And now, not only is all of Japan in ruins, the terrible Russians who we beat so nicely forty years ago are already looming on its doorstep and are eager to reckon with us for Tsushima and the Varyag. We’ll not raise our legs up in front of the Americans - we will deal with them! ” So was he supposed to express himself in 1945?
Incidentally, this very appeal probably played a considerable role in the fact that even during the occupation of Japan, the United States and allies graciously allowed to maintain imperial power there. A military and политическая the country's elite for praising the allegedly “broken American power” received its incredibly important bonus - the Tokyo Tribunal, which tried Japanese war criminals, although it was called by many “Far Eastern Nuremberg,” was actually a miserable parody of it. The Americans did everything to “otmazyvat” the Japanese who correctly capitulated - and were very successful in this. However, this is a topic for another conversation.
Remember Hiroshima and Nagasaki is necessary. But remember, first of all, that the United States of America is the first and only country in the world to use nuclear weapons, and also against the civilian population. And this was done in no case not because of “military necessity”, but in favor of the dirty political interests of the country, which to this day has the audacity to accuse whom it pleases of “aggression”, and exposes itself as the greatest stronghold of peace and justice on Earth at all times.
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