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Re:Hiroshima (1946) by jmknoll on Sunday August 09, 2020 @05:20PM (#24103009)
I see the point you’re trying to make, and by no means am I saying that the British were without fault, but there is a very significant difference between the the British defending their liberal democracy from Nazi domination and a largely rural, largely uneducated Japanese population being conscripted into fighting a war of aggression on behalf of a totalitarian state.
Re:Hiroshima (1946) by goto11 on Monday August 10, 2020 @06:04AM (#24107466)
Yes and no - UK was actually a colonial empire at the time of WWII and had conquered and subjugated more land and peoples than the Japanese ever managed. While the UK itself could be termed a liberal democracy, most of its subjects had no say.