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[-] ZombiFrancis@sh.itjust.works 44 points 10 months ago

When I cleared out my grandma's attic there were her ww2 correspondence letters with soldiers on the front.

I was not prepared for the amount of american soldiers writing about how wonderful Hitler was and we shouldn't be at war in Europe because the real enemy were the Reds.

"Heil Hitler and Fuck the Reds!" is a line from one.

It really put the inevitability of the Cold War into perspective.

[-] gayhitler420@lemm.ee 2 points 10 months ago

America joined the war in Europe to prevent the Soviet Union from spreading communism.

[-] ZombiFrancis@sh.itjust.works 2 points 10 months ago

Pearl Harbor may have also been a factor, but there is definitely something to that.

America was hoping to grind them both to dust with each other. And largely that was successful. The Eastern Front was a hellscape of death.

[-] gayhitler420@lemm.ee 1 points 10 months ago

Pearl Harbor was a Japanese response to the American blockade and shipping operations in the pacific during the war.

[-] ZombiFrancis@sh.itjust.works 2 points 10 months ago

The tonnage war certainly started well before that. Lend Lease act to the USSR was in place for nearly a year beforehand even.

[-] gayhitler420@lemm.ee 1 points 10 months ago

That’s significantly different from putting boots on the ground in Europe which was going awful for America until Stalingrad and the point I was trying to make about Pearl Harbor was that the Japanese command knew it couldn’t beat America outright and was trying to establish the territories that would constitute the Japanese empire after the war ended.

The pacific theater was Japan trying to get America to say “you know what? Fine! Have some little shitty islands!”

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