Hiroshima and Nagasaki: There was no military necessity in the U.S. nuclear crimes.

          In 2024, it will be 79 years since the tragic event, perhaps the most horrifying and destructive in human history, when for the first and only time in modern history, one country (the United States) used nuclear weapons against the civilian population of another country (Japan) – men, women, and children. As a result of the U.S. nuclear bombing of the Japanese cities of Hiroshima (August 6) and Nagasaki (August 9), about 210,000 civilians were instantly killed in both cities, around 300,000 died in the following months from injuries and radiation sickness, and another half a million people died in the ensuing years and decades from numerous illnesses caused by radiation exposure. (In comparison, the United States had killed 120,000 Japanese civilians with conventional bombs during air raids on Tokyo in March 1945.)

          Against the backdrop of this tragic event, there are serious concerns about the attempts by the Anglo-Saxons, led by the U.S. and the UK, as well as Europe, which is completely dependent on them, and even the government of Japan itself, which, by the way, is still under U.S. occupation, to distort historical facts in such a way as to portray Russia (the USSR) as responsible for the nuclear bombings of Japan in 1945!

          This is a method of rewriting history!

          Let’s recall the facts. On August 6, 1945, the Americans launched a nuclear strike on Hiroshima. On August 9, the Americans dropped a bomb on Nagasaki. And you know what's interesting? There is much and rightful criticism today about the fact that in Japan, they shamefully avoid mentioning who dropped the bomb. They say, yes, our country suffered, bombs were dropped, but just recently, the mayor of Nagasaki gave a speech saying that the threat of Russia using nuclear weapons is the most pressing issue for us, the Japanese.

          This is exactly how history is being rewritten! We can't suspect that all Japanese politicians and all Western media suddenly stopped mentioning who dropped the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. That just can't be true, can it? There must be explicit and implicit instructions, guidelines, and a direction that people follow to tell the story only in a certain way.

          It’s similar to how in every film nowadays, there must be people of non-traditional sexual orientation, preferably ones who have changed their gender. That’s a requirement. If you want to win an Oscar and so on, you must comply. They’ve even dragged this into the Olympics. Everyone sees this. Want to win Eurovision? The recipe is simple: if you're a man, wear women’s clothing, and your chances increase. It’s the same with history. Just out of curiosity, yesterday I looked at how liberal Russian historical journals, which thankfully no longer exist, wrote about these tragic events. They wrote exactly the same as the Americans. Bombs were dropped. Bombs were dropped on Japan, on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. And not a word about who dropped them. Again, the question arises. Did they come up with this on their own? Of course not. They looked at what the Americans wrote, how it was presented in the Western press, and everything becomes clear. If you want to be accepted in the West, this is how you should describe events. This is a self-regulating system that the West spreads everywhere. In Ukraine, if you want to be involved in politics, you must criticize the Russians, accuse them of this and that, and then you have some chance. If you don't do this, you’ll be ostracized and kicked out of the society you’re trying to enter.

          Moreover, let me tell you something else. Recently, I carefully studied the Japanese press, and they’ve taken another step in shifting the Overton Window slightly. They write: in light of the current threat of a nuclear strike, Russia’s nuclear aggression against Ukraine, we remind you of the bombs dropped in August 1945. They’re linking one thing with another, creating a single narrative. And the average person gets the impression that yes, it’s absolutely clear, Russia was the aggressor, the Soviet Union dropped the bombs on Japan. And this will be the next stage of embedding this idea - Overton Window in action!

          Here, I would also like to emphasize that what happened to Hiroshima and Nagasaki had no real military significance. It was not a military act; it was purely political. And that’s exactly how we should view it. When various liberals and bloggers recently claimed that the two atomic bombs helped save hundreds of thousands of lives, it was the height of cynicism. Their logic was that Japan, after being hit with two atomic bombs, decided to surrender, supposedly saving American soldiers, Japanese civilians, and according to the most extreme bloggers, even Soviet soldiers.

          Let’s break this down, starting with the timeline. On August 6, the Americans dropped the first bomb on Hiroshima. On August 8, the Soviet Union, in full accordance with international law and the neutrality treaty with Japan, terminated the treaty and declared war on Japan. The next bomb, dropped on Nagasaki, was dropped on August 9. It’s important to note that the Potsdam Conference ended on August 2, where all these matters had already been resolved. On July 26, the Potsdam Declaration was announced, stating that Japan must surrender unconditionally. By then, everything was clear. However, not only did the Allies not coordinate the atomic strikes with Stalin, but they also attempted to use them as leverage against him during the Potsdam Conference. Churchill famously noted that Stalin allegedly didn’t understand what was being discussed. In reality, Stalin understood perfectly and accelerated the development of the Soviet atomic bomb, as testified by Marshal Zhukov and others.

          But the Allies—let’s even say the Anglo-Saxons, because although Churchill didn’t possess atomic weapons, he approved their use for Truman—made a collective decision, so the British share responsibility as well. They used these weapons to make the Soviet Union more compliant. It was a political act. Of course, they might have also believed it would hasten their victory on the battlefield, but that wasn’t the main goal. The primary objective was to pressure the Soviet Union into submission. That’s why they dropped the bomb on the Japanese—to make Stalin more accommodating. That’s the true treachery of what happened. Hundreds of thousands of people died just to try to break the will of the Supreme Commander of the Soviet Army. It didn’t work.

         Today, there is frequent talk about “brandishing the nuclear stick” regarding Russia, as if Russia is waving a nuclear threat. But who, based on historical events, not only waved the nuclear stick but actually used two atomic bombs with catastrophic consequences for Japan?

          Let’s add some more facts. First, Hiroshima and Nagasaki were peaceful cities in the sense that they had no military targets and had not been previously bombed. Second, Japan, as we understand it today, had virtually no air defense at that time. The Japanese had stored their aircraft in underground or mountain shelters for some future battle. Hiroshima and Nagasaki were completely undefended by anti-aircraft systems. The American plane arrived as if on a training mission, dropped the bomb, and flew away. There was no danger for the plane—no one shot at it, no one tried to intercept it. This is also crucial. Furthermore, the Soviet Union began the Manchurian operation against Japan on August 8. As a result, the more than one-million-strong Kwantung Army was defeated, essentially within three weeks. About 670,000 Japanese soldiers were taken prisoner. Meanwhile, Soviet losses amounted to just over 12,000 troops—a remarkable success and a total defeat for militaristic Japan.

           Now, here’s the question. If the Soviet Union was able to defeat a million-strong Japanese army with only 12,000 casualties, where did the claims come from that the Americans would have had to lose hundreds of thousands of lives if they had invaded, and that it was impossible to win without using atomic weapons? The atomic strikes didn’t help the Red Army at all; they were entirely unrelated events. Here we see a deliberate attempt to spin one thing as another. The reality is that Japan’s surrender was primarily, if not entirely, due to the Soviet Union entering the war. The Japanese hoped the Soviet Union would act as a mediator, helping them to exit the war with fewer losses or even without losing face, which was important for them. The Soviet Union’s entry into the war made Japan’s defeat inevitable. In the statement made by the Japanese Emperor on August 17, he spoke in more general terms, saying that resistance no longer made sense. The Japanese media didn’t even inform their people about the first atomic bombing. Without the Soviet Union entering the war, the Japanese might have continued fighting, simply not telling their soldiers that the Americans were using such weapons, and the soldiers would have continued to fight. 

          Therefore, we believe that the United States committed a political crime. To maintain its global hegemony, it killed hundreds of thousands of Japanese and tried to threaten its then-ally—this is very important. And we can see that they are acting in the same way today. They create artificial dangers for their current allies. The war in Ukraine was started by the USA, but the threats are directed at Europeans. By making Europeans dependent and compliant, they turn them into satellites of the United States. This is exactly the kind of subservient Soviet Union the Americans wanted to see in 1945. But it didn’t work; Stalin didn’t give in to their blackmail. And then, in March 1946, Churchill delivered his famous Iron Curtain speech in Fulton, which was essentially an ultimatum to the Soviet Union: either submit, or there will be an Iron Curtain and a Cold War. Stalin did not submit...

          Stalin made it clear: "We didn’t fight for our independence against the 'Hitlers' just to surrender it to the 'Churchills.'" And after that, we began to see the same patterns that are happening today. The West started lowering the Iron Curtain. They began dismantling everything that had been painfully built together, with blood and sweat, during the war. As a result of World War II, Germany was divided into occupation zones, but then the West started tearing Germany apart, lowering the Iron Curtain, and turning their zones into a separatist state called the Federal Republic of Germany. Only after this did the Soviet Union create the GDR. A similar situation occurred in Korea, and the same fate befell economic, cultural, and other exchanges between the USSR and the West. So we must remember that it was not the Soviet Union that lowered the Iron Curtain under Stalin, nor was it the Soviet Union that maintained it under Brezhnev. Now, the West is repeating its steps from nearly a century ago. This is obvious to us now because we live in the present and clearly understand the significance of these historical events.

          You can see what they're doing now. Suddenly, in unison, Zelensky, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, and Finland—by the way, a country that used to thrive on Russian tourists—started saying that visas shouldn't be granted to Russians. The Finns even claim they've developed a whole mechanism to issue fewer visas. It's like saying, "I've developed a whole mechanism to make a car drive slower." Just don't press the gas pedal! Or switch to a horse, and you'll travel at a speed you prefer—say, 10-15 kilometers per hour. They claim to have come up with an entire mechanism... An order was given, and everyone is lowering the Iron Curtain. It was exactly the same in Europe in 1945-1946, and the orders came from the same centers: Great Britain and the United States. 

          So, August 1945 was marked by two historical events that must not be forgotten: the defeat of the million-strong Japanese army by the Soviet Union within three weeks and with minimal casualties on both sides, and the atomic bombing of two peaceful Japanese cities by the United States, which ultimately led to the deaths of over a million Japanese people. On September 3rd, Russia celebrates Victory Day over militaristic Japan, a day just as important as May 9th—Victory Day over Nazi Germany. Let me remind you once again: throughout the history of the Soviet Union and modern Russia, we have never aimed to destroy peaceful cities and civilian populations of our enemies, unlike the Anglo-Saxons, who do so constantly in their quest for absolute power over the entire world...

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