Mythmaking and the Atomic Destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki - CounterPunch.org

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

60% : To make things worse, the northern half of Korea, a former Japanese colony the US had hoped to reduce to vassalage together with Japan itself, opted for an idiosyncratic path to socialism, and in Vietnam a popular independence movement under the leadership of Ho Chi Minh likewise turned out to have plans that proved to be incompatible with the grand Asian ambitions of the United States.
46% : And they also found it abominable that the Soviets were certain to use that German capital to build a socialist system, an undesirable form of competition for capitalism.
45% : It is well known that the Soviet supremo, Stalin, was a firm believer in the idea that it was possible and even necessary to create "socialism in one country", hence the hostility between him and Trotsky, an apostle of worldwide revolution.
44% : To the contrary, the legitimacy of these Soviet war aims had been recognized repeatedly, either explicitly or implicitly, in Tehran, Yalta, and elsewhere.

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