Was Japan worse than the Nazis?

Most slaves we had bought from African tribes who had enslaved their enemies. They would have been slaves even if we had never been there.

**** them.

wow, shocking how racist people can get defending their own country.

even more interesting that the chiune sugihara comment was completely overlooked - i shamefully admit, i personally hadn't heard of that guy before, but he's a regular Schindler who hasn't had the same legacy that Schindler has perhaps because of the west's ignorance towards Asia and anywhere outside europe and north america

i really don't think there's any point branding a certain race as disgusting, evil, brutal, etc. the point is every race has committed horrific crimes and it's hurtful to brand people who are so totally against that sort of thing due to their race.

stop saying stuff like 'look here at what the japanese did', 'dead Jap' these are offensive terms and serve to alienate modern japanese people who don't at all agree with the crimes of their ancestors.

i admit ishii shiro's argument isnt that compelling but in the end he's just sticking up for his race in the same way that people are trying to defend colonialism here.

just stop the labelling and pointing fingers, it's disgusting to read

Stalin said that to his own people aswell.

I'm sorry but without Stalin, you'd most definitely be speaking German and probably being feasted upon by the the Japanese scum, contemplating on how they should eat you.

I think that perhaps it is the fact that Japan is overlooked when it comes to atrocities and especially in the West, portrayed a lot as victims, which they were at the hands of the atomic bombs but that doesn't absolve them from their role in the massacre in 1937 and their role in WW2. It's more that people are becoming enlightened to what the Japanese did do and it is disgusting. If you start to censor it then it is as good as ignoring it and pretending like a Japanese authority did not too long ago, in the early noughties, who chose to defend the military and not apologise for the massacre. To this day, the Japanese have neither paid the extent of war reparations that the Germans were forced to nor publicly apologised for the Nanking massacre, many even deny its actuality and it is not well known in the West due to the role Japan played post-WW2 in allowing America to establish a foothold in that region of the world against Communism.

There is a big lie about Nanking - it was the other way around, there was nasty riot against innocent Japanese civilians and many were raped by Chinese - the army had to step in to stop the rioters. It is western conspiracy.

I'm sorry but without Stalin, you'd most definitely be speaking German and probably being feasted upon by the the Japanese scum, contemplating on how they should eat you.

that was very well put and I agree, but it's not the fault of the Japanese that they are portrayed as victims, they had two atom bombs dropped on them which sort of by default makes them objects of pity, but certainly that doesnt mean they should be absolved of their horrific war crimes

i dont really know all that much about the details so i dont want to make any big points here, but all i was saying was that when you interchange your own race with the word japanese in this thread, it makes you feel quite uncomfortable, and the manner in which people were propounding their points was .. indelicate

You're justifying it like a kid. Just because someone else does it/has done it doesn't then make slavery any less of a crime against humanity when you do it.

the notion that all Africans were victims and all Briton’s were the evil perpetrators is just nonsense.

I see you haven't taken much from my lengthy treatise on Stalin's terrible role in the unofficial famine of 32-2 and his terrible decisions on agriculture in the private message. You seem to continue to advocate Stalin and attribute the winning of the war solely in his hands. You speak of fascist german scum in your message and Japanese scum on here yet you still don't have a grasp on the politics which Stalin stood for. I assume you haven't replied to the message because you are unable to build and justify a suitable argument for Stalin. If you can, I anticipate with baited breath.

I didn't reply because I couldn't be arsed reading 500,000 odd words.

Had Stalin not industrialised the Soviet Union at least 90% of the population would have been exterminated, in order to control such large a country. I'll concede that a lot of people did die under Stalin's regime, however hundreds of millions more would have died had his policies not sacrificed human life. Without Stalin, the allies would not have won World War II. I think we all have a lot to be thankful for don't you?