I often watch History Channel but this episode escaped me. If I had seen it and it was/is as presented I probably would have flipped,easy to do with Oliver Stone stuff. I was about eighth in a line getting battle gear at a infantry replacement depot on Leyte when a Lt. came out and told us to go back to the tents because the war was over. We certainly before then did not have a feeling the war was over and even with the impending landing on Japan most if not all were wishing for more atomic bombs would be dropped. Sitting in that tent on Leyte I was very glad that the bombs had been dropped. I always believed and still do that the Communistic Russian dictator Stalin decided it was time, beneficial, and opportunistic to go against the Japs and get back some land without much cost. People like Stone need to do more serious and realistic research work before putting out their propaganda. I didn’t notice much regret in the Jap prisoners I was in contact after the war’s end. I’m sure my brother who was killed on Okinawa didn’t believe the Japs would surrender without some overwhelming force being used.
>>>>>I always believed and still do that the Communistic Russian dictator Stalin decided it was time, beneficial, and opportunistic to go against the Japs and get back some land without much cost.<<<<<<<<<<
In fact Soviets attacked Japan because they were obliged to do so under treaty. In 1943 US&Britain took obligation to land in France against Nazy. Russian part of the deal was to attack Japan in in a period of 3 months after German surrender. So they did as negotiated.
Before that Soviets and Japan had a non-agression pact with Japan, similar to that broken by Hitler in 1941. Under this pact Soviets de-juro jailed US aircrews landing on their territory after raids on Japan. De-facto Soviets faked documents for the Japanese and handed US airmen to American authorities via Iran.
Back in 1966, I was stationed at Walker AFB in Roswell NM. One day I went to the public library in Roswell, and while there I looked at a book about Truman. I noticed on the inside page of the back binding were written in INK, the words in big letters....”TRUMAN, MURDERER!”
Underneath it was another paragraph written by someone else, giving a good defense of Truman’s action.
So the viciousness of the LEFT is not a new thing.