Yes, it was the Russians neglecting the utility systems in the good years.
How will they rebuild them with all the plumbers gone to graveyards everywhere?
And minus the fat energy sales to Europe?
Sales to China and India are not profitable, perhaps sufficient to keep the wells flowing. Turning them off is a very bad idea.
And Tokyo Rose was totally framed by the great and glorious FBI
“More than 20 years after the trial, two witnesses confessed to a Chicago Tribune reporter that they lied on the stand and had been pressured by the government to do so, according to Wollenberg.”
“With pressure mounting on President Harry S. Truman’s administration amid accusations that he was “soft on traitors,” federal prosecutors reopened the case and brought Toguri to the U.S. to stand trial, according to Charles Wollenberg, a history professor at Berkeley City College.
Because the government lacked hard evidence, it relied heavily on witness testimony during the trial. Among the few recordings and transcripts of Toguri’s broadcasts, “none showed her doing more than being a disc jockey introducing American popular music and telling corny jokes,”
In 1977, President Gerald Ford pardoned Toguri