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Originally Posted by SuchFriendsAreDangerous
now I wonder who all the real monsters are out there?
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do they rent out high-horses when you become a rasta or does it just majickally apparate out of all that ganja smoke?
yrs seems a little pallid and crazy-eyed, I think the rest of the rude boys are playing a joke on you.
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Originally Posted by 5Against1
Russia declares war on Japan and invades occupied Manchuria: August 8, 1945. Maybe they were more afraid of the Russians than the nukes.
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although surely that didn't help them any, as it's been pointed out above, the japanese showed a determinacy to fight to last woman and child against bullets and (normal) bombs.
manchuria was far away from home. I'm sure that the psychological toll of bombs falling on the japanese mainland shook them up far greater than the loss of this somewhat newly acquired territory.
what's more, at this point, russian's military had suffered devastating losses on the western front. they repelled the nazis, but not without a HUGE cost. the invasion on manchuria was an opportunistic strike on their part to get what they could (while they could).