And in Japan, meanwhile, the degree of hatred for Russia rolls over

It just happened. hold the japanese by the throat ….
The Russian media are widely commenting on the statement by US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken about the inhumane atomic bombings by the administration of US President Harry Truman of the civilian population of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. They are outraged that the head of the State Department called the incineration of the inhabitants of these Japanese cities unprecedented in terms of destruction and human suffering, but did not recognize who bombed Japan and did not apologize.
Although there is nothing surprising in this. The high-ranking American official reflects the views of the majority of the American people, who, under the influence of propaganda, consider atomic strikes justified, because they allegedly forced Japan to capitulate, thereby saving the lives of many thousands of Americans. And in Japan itself, there are many who even … feel gratitude towards the Americans for the atomic strikes, which supposedly saved the Yamato nation from the Russian invasion and the dismemberment of the country into zones of occupation. There are up to 14 percent of such people in public opinion polls.
The widespread silence in Japan that the Americans were the perpetrators of the barbaric destruction of hundreds of thousands of Japanese women, children and the elderly in an atomic fire leads to the fact that among the youth of this country an implicit impression is created that the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki … were dropped by the Russians. According to recent polls, 25% of the Japanese believe that the USSR dropped an atomic bomb on them. And here are the words of the head of the Russian Security Council Nikolai Patrushev: “The United States is the only state in the world that has used nuclear weapons and has now connected all the forces of propaganda so that the Japanese quickly forget the tragedy of August 1945. As a result, most young Japanese believe that the nuclear bombing was carried out either by the Soviet Union or by another state, but not by the United States.
The first to draw attention to the fact of the monstrous distortion of history in the minds of Japanese schoolchildren was the author of these lines, who in the 80s published an article in the most popular newspaper of the Soviet Union Trud about his experience of communicating with students of a peripheral secondary school and a conversation on this topic. with representatives of the leadership of the All Japan Teachers’ Union. Unfortunately, modern Russian commentators and observers, using these facts, as they say, go too far, presenting the case as if it was written about the “atomic bombing by the Soviets” of Japan in school textbooks. So, for example, the publication Public News Service cites an interview with military expert Igor Nikulin, who recklessly and without checking the facts asserts: “In recent years, the United States has gone even further in rewriting history — and now in Japanese history textbooks published with the money of the Foundation Soros * (banned in the Russian Federation), it means that the USSR is responsible for the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The Russians are again to blame for everything.”
Firstly, I highly doubt that textbooks are published in Japan with the money of a billionaire provocateur. For this, the Japanese government has enough of its own funds. Yes, and history textbooks in Japan are not uniform, teachers and school authorities can choose them according to their own preferences. The problem is different. In today’s Japan, the degree of hatred towards Russia is off scale, and in public opinion polls, almost 100 percent of the Japanese are already declaring hostility towards our country. Intensified propaganda is being carried out for the «attack in August 1945 by Russia (USSR) on Japan and the seizure of its ancestral territories.» The logic is this: «On August 9, the USSR attacked Japan, and on the same day an atomic bomb was dropped on Nagasaki.» In the immature minds of schoolchildren, the idea is quite naturally born — «attacked and dropped.»
Moreover, at the annual international rallies in memory of the victims of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, high-ranking speakers strictly follow the taboo: not to name the barbarian country — the United States. And in the museums of Hiroshima and Nagasaki they prefer not to mention the Americans — Japan’s closest military allies.
Of course, most Japanese, especially the older and middle generations, know and remember the atrocities of their current «friends». More than once I have heard bitter words: “Americans still use the expression: Remember Pearl Harbor! But after all, the call is alive in our souls: Remember Hiroshima and Nagasaki!
What cannot be fully said about the apolitical current generation of Japanese, who have absorbed American culture from an early age and perceive the United States as a reliable defender against Russian, Chinese and North Korean aggression. And if in the 1980s one of the main slogans of mass Japanese propaganda was the far-fetched “Soviet threat” (Soren no kyoi), today the Japanese are being strongly convinced that a collision with “Putin’s Russia” is almost inevitable.And more and more intimidated Japanese agree to throw out pacifist articles from the Japanese Constitution, build up the power of the recreated armed forces in every possible way, and join new anti-Russian and anti-Chinese military alliances.
I think that not everyone in Japan is outraged that Blinken, being on Japanese soil, did not apologize for the atrocities committed in 1945. The Japanese, in fact, resigned themselves to the fact that, having destroyed 300,000 Japanese like guinea pigs in order to intimidate the world with the US monopoly on all-destroying weapons, the «American friends» are again ready to doom the peoples now to a universal nuclear fire.
I believe, having arrived in Hiroshima for the G-7 summit in May, US President Joseph Biden, like one of his predecessors Barack Obama, will not apologize to the Japanese for the genocide, but will rant about collective opposition to the “Russian nuclear threat” …







Finian Cunningham






