The
reactionary press, historians and bourgeois political scientists present the
news in the newspapers regarding the launching of the atomic bombs by the
Yankee imperialists on the two Japanese cities in August 1945:
"It is
79 years since the atomic bombs in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, an attack that left
nearly 75 thousand people dead.
The bombing
of Nagasaki on August 6, together with that of Hiroshima on August 9, played a
crucial role in Japan's decision to surrender during World War II."
We say:
The
dropping of the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki on August 6 and 9, 1945,
is intended to be presented and justified as the decisive event to end World
War II on the Eastern Front. That is why it is necessary to clarify the
historical truth and reaffirm the great Marxist-Leninist-Maoist truth that
neither imperialism nor the atomic bomb will put an end to humanity, that
humanity will put an end to imperialism and the atomic bomb!
Chairman
Gonzalo says:
World War
II is a momentous event in world history. It strictly began in 1939 and ended
in 1945.
A world war
in which on the one hand there is imperialist plunder, the dispute for world
hegemony that Germany under Hitler claimed for itself; but on the other hand it
is the defense of socialism and development of the revolution. Yes, it is quite
clear and correct that the war waged then by the USSR was a Great Patriotic
War, it was a just war of defense, as it was correctly defined; and of
development of the world revolution because in addition to that glorious heroic
defense that cost the USSR 20 million men, we have an anti-imperialist struggle
that will develop in oppressed nations, mainly in China.
And why do
we say mainly in China? It is good to remember that 60% of the Japanese army
was retained in China for a long time; That is why we do not agree when one
simply speaks of the Western Front, the Eastern Front, but taking everything as
what was fought in Europe, and seeing the problem of the East as a great front
of struggle and a great revolutionary front, it is wrong, in our opinion, when
one tries to reduce it to the action of the Western imperialists and mainly of
the United States, that has not been the case.
It is the
great war of resistance of oppressed nations, such as China, Korea, Burma, Indonesia,
the Philippines, etc., where precisely the imperialists fled like rats and it
was the peoples of those nations who took up arms; those who were lucky enough
to have a Communist Party triumphed and advanced and those who were not, at
least in a transactional way were freed from being colonies, for example
Indonesia which ceased to be, as a consequence of that war, a colony of
Holland.
On May 8,
Germany surrendered and the ceasefire went into effect early on May 9, 1945,
which is why May 9 is celebrated as Victory Day.
The other
great front, in the east, is centered in China, where the Japanese army was
bogged down in a sea of masses, mined and undermined by guerrilla warfare;
various oppressed nations took up arms against them; The Westerners “supported”
and then returned. It is good to remember MacArthur, the best cadet that West
Point has ever had, that is, the military school of the United States, one of
the greatest strategists that the United States has ever produced. He had his
headquarters in the Philippines. What did he do? He retired saying what he
famously said: “I will return!” Yes, when they defeated the Japanese. That is
the part he did not say. Of course, comrades, because we will return. Yes, they
returned. But when did they return? When the Japanese were undermined,
undermined by the struggle in China and in the various oppressed nations of the
East.
It is
therefore the oppressed peoples who have resisted the Japanese beast, which is
once again at its best. Think about this simply to see what it has cost the
United States. 100,000 soldiers, that is all that World War II has cost them,
most of them dead in the East, you see? And fearing that the war on the Western
European front having ended, and as the agreements said, the USSR would have to
turn its front against Japan, fearing that the Red Army would expand, they had
to use the atomic bomb; yes, that clearly shows how politics directs the war,
the Japanese were going to be crushed, they could not resist, the
justifications they want to give us today are just that, justifications.
So, World
War II is a fact of great significance. The prestige of the USSR rose high
above the earth, just look at the newspapers of the time. I remember, comrades,
when the victory was over, yes, I was in Callao, how the factory and ship
sirens sounded when Germany surrendered! Because by then the war was already
won, the only thing left was to end it, it was a worldwide uproar, as I also
remember, as if I were seeing it today, how the pages of the newspapers were
already raising the atomic bomb like a cudgel to scare the fearful by asking
us: is there a risk of disintegration, will the earth disintegrate? A foolish
thing because if there had been such a risk, would scientists have dropped the
atomic bomb? It makes no sense, that is, that is not seeing the political
essence that directs the war, weapons are used in function of political
objectives; that little bomb killed a whopping 60 thousand people in Hiroshima;
Nagasaki was 145,000, and yet more are commemorated or remembered than
Hiroshima because it was the first time, but in Nagasaki there were 145,000
more. These are events of transcendence that are shaping the minds of people in
those turbulent times.