To: dfwgator
It also saved Japan from being divided, like Korea, and from a Korea-like Civil War.Good point. And the Russians were all ready to join in the carving up of Japan free-for-all if the war did not end when it did.
57 posted on
02/08/2014 9:21:56 AM PST by
exit82
("The Taliban is on the inside of the building" E. Nordstrom 10-10-12)
To: exit82
And the Chi-Coms certainly would have tried to get their piece of flesh.
58 posted on
02/08/2014 9:23:59 AM PST by
dfwgator
To: exit82
well, the Soviets captured the Salklines Islands,
just North of the Japanese Major Islands.
61 posted on
02/08/2014 9:28:52 AM PST by
skinkinthegrass
(The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun..0'Caligula / 0'Reid / 0'Pelosi)
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