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AntiRCCZealot [2014-02-15 19:07:13 +0000 UTC]

Another fantastic work here! And looking at the third panel, I've got to say... While it may be pointless to try to establish which World War II Axis aggressor, Nazi Germany or Imperial Japan, was the more brutal to the people it victimized as both nations looted the countries they conquered on a monumental scale, the Japanese or Shinto imperialists, to be more precise, (they did declare their own "holy war" on China, seisen; Japan wasn't just a bloodthirsty and relentless Empire, it was a THEOCRATIC military dictatorship just like the Spanish conquerors pillaging, enslaving and raping in the name of Catholicism), plundered more, over a longer period, than the Nazis. If one was a Nazi prisoner of war from Britain, US, Australia, New Zealand, or Canada (but not the Soviet Union), he would face a 4% chance of not surviving the war and by comparison, the death rate for Allied POWs held by the Shinto imperialists was nearly 30%.

And yet despite all that, people tend to be quick to overlook and forget how truly evil and barbaric those Shinto imperialists were to non-Japanese Asian countries or how brutal the Italian Fascists were to Ethiopians. The atrocities committed by Shinto imperialists, Italian Fascists and even the Soviets are merely footnotes in history. I mean, in modern-day Germany, even a HINT of Fascism or sympathy towards Nazism is enough to get you arrested. In Japan, on the other hand, these same group of war criminals are still being venerated and revered as "national heroes." One would think that the only country in history ever subjected to nuclear bombardment would learn a thing or two about setting aside their chauvinistic culture, but the way things are going in the Far East, Japan is well on the road to a second nuclear strike and this time, by their neighbors, mostly China or North Korea.  

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