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Old 07-02-2012, 04:06 PM
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Originally Posted by strelnik View Post
Read about Manchuria and Nanking and you will see that the japanese decapitated the women in front of their children. Then they decapitated the children.

The Japanese were "eliminators" but the Russians, just brutes.
After reading these accounts, it is easy to see using the A bomb, if for nothing else, a punishment. We know that it saved countless scores of US lives, but it was also a hellacious payback for the japanese behavior during the war.
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