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Originally Posted by dyna mo
this is not correct at all.
japan went to russia to try for a conditional surrender, russia blew them off because of the alliance we had with russia, japs tried to weasle away from being the aggressors in the pacific, thatand their aggression is why we demanded unconditional surrender.
our generals never ever said the war was over until that surrender was signed. what they did say was that the japanese had lost every battle but still had not and would not surrender.
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You're wrong. I watched a special on Showtime just a few weeks ago showing archived footage of the Generals in their own words saying that the bomb was not needed.
Truman wanted to drop it to prove a point.
Do some research. Don't believe what we were taught in school about it.