Howell Clark
Aug 8, 2017 · 1 min read

abel i see you are still at this rewrite of history with a vengenance. the soviet army by the end of the war was a remarkable machine but they had had trouble subduing the japanese in the kuril chain and the only reason they took one island was hirihito told his officers to stand down. stalins generals had no real equipment to invade , their plan was to ground ships for a one way trip across that little strait you paint as a cakewalk 82 years after the fact. you can say what you want about what you think they could accomplish with such a plan but i’d bet on the foolish side of failure. what do you think would have been accomplished playing nice with the japs and stalin who already had at this time all of eastern europe under his benevolent thumb with no intentions of letting go. your pretty good at blasting what you consider to be the ugly side of US moves at that time so one might ask what your slanted somewhat biased account here is attempting to accomplish. its so polluted with editorialistic statements that it hardly qualifies as new information to change what folks on both sides of that old divide might reconsider. by the way some accounts put stalin standing down on that invasion on the 15th and others on the 16th and i believe on one account i saw the 17th mentioned, so pick a date seems to be the theme.

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