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In that context, with no benefit of hindsight, to say that the bomb was not dropped to win the war but just to intimidate the USSR is nonsense. Not just
by cema 13y ago
In that context, with no benefit of hindsight,
to say that the bomb was not dropped to win the war
but just to intimidate the USSR is nonsense.
Not just nonsense, but also part of a propaganda war. I cannot read it otherwise (unless the comment had offered a more profound historical analysis, which it has not).
- SiVal 13y agoI'm willing to give the HN commenter above the benefit of the doubt that he/she might just be parroting something picked up on campus, but I agree with you that this claim has been part of leftist propaganda for decades.
- hef19898 13y agoAnd that's because only leftist engange in propaganda? Sorry, couldn't help it.... but for the theory that the ONLY reason the bomb was dropped to intimidate the Sowjets is as wrong as the oppossite view point that it soley anded the war and saved millions of lifes. it's both propagande, just from different camps.