The United States launched the first nuclear attack in history on the city of Hiroshima on August 6, 1945, and three days later, dropped a second atomic bomb on Nagasaki. This is presented and justified as the decisive event that led to Japan's surrender, marking the end of World War II.
It is estimated that some 210,000 people lost their lives over the years due to the bombings, which also left 150,000 injured and the humanitarian and environmental consequences still felt.
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 that ended World War II on the Eastern Front. Therefore, it is necessary to clarify this issue, which Yankee imperialists and their allies/rivals try to sell on each anniversary.
“ Let us remember that during the war, the Roosevelt administration used various channels for continuous and urgent efforts to open separate and secret peace negotiations with the German, Japanese, and Italian fascists, hoping that the anti-fascist war could become an anti-Soviet war.
In collaboration with the British, the US adopted a policy of delay and reconsideration in the face of the opening of a second front in Europe. It was not until the victory of the Soviet army over the German army became evident that in June 1944, the United States and the British sent their troops to land in France (in Normandy). In fact, they did not abandon their silent hope of weakening the Soviet Union. Because of the courageous struggle of the people of the Soviet Union, China, and the world, the anti-fascist war rapidly developed and spread. Led by Stalin, the Red Army counterattacked and penetrated the Eastern European nations of Poland, Bulgaria, Hungary, and Czechoslovakia. The Japanese aggressors also suffered severe blows from the peoples of China and Asia. Only when victory in the war against fascism was in sight did the United States and Britain finally proclaim their agreement to open the second front and land in France in June 1944.
Even after Japan surrendered, the US imperialists dropped atomic bombs on the densely populated Hiroshima and Nagasaki on August 6 and 9, 1945, killing thousands of civilians. The US imperialists hoped that the use of the atomic bomb would send a dark message to the peoples of the world in the post-war struggle for global hegemony. (…)
After World War I, US imperialism replaced German, Japanese, and Italian fascism.”
(from Shih Chan, A Brief History of the United States, a reading pamphlet for workers and peasants in China, translated into English in 1976)
Chairman Gonzalo, in this regard, says:
World War II is a momentous event in world history; strictly speaking, it 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, it is the defense of socialism and the 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. which will unfold in oppressed nations, mainly in China.
And why do we say "primarily in China"?
It's good to remember that 60% of the Japanese army was held back in China for a long time. That's why we disagree when people simply talk about the Western Front, the Eastern Front, but considering everything as what was fought in Europe, and seeing the problem of the East as a major front of struggle and a major revolutionary front. It's erroneous, in our opinion, when they try to reduce it to the actions of Western imperialists, and primarily the United States. That hasn't been the case. It's the great war of resistance of oppressed nations, like China, Korea, Burma, Indonesia, the Philippines, etc., where the imperialists fled like rats, and it was the people of those nations who took up arms. Those lucky enough to have a Communist Party triumphed and advanced, and those who didn't at least escaped being colonies in a transactional manner. For example, Indonesia, which ceased to be a colony of the Netherlands as a result of that war.
On May 8, Germany surrendered, and the ceasefire went into effect early on May 9, 1945, which is why May 9 is celebrated as VE Day.
The other great front, in the east, has its center in China, where the Japanese army was mired in a sea of masses, mined, undermined by guerrilla warfare; various oppressed nations took up arms against them; the West "supported" them and then returned. It's good to remember MacArthur (...). He had his headquarters in the Philippines. What did he do? He retreated, uttering what his famous phrase goes: "I will return!" Yes, when the Japanese are defeated. That's the part he didn't say, of course, because they did return. But when did they return? When the Japanese were undermined, undermined by the fighting in China and in the various oppressed nations of the east.
It is the oppressed peoples who have resisted the Japanese beast, which is once again at its wits' end. (...) And fearing that, having concluded the war on the Western European front, and as the agreements stipulated, the USSR would have to turn its front against Japan, fearing that the Red Army would expand, they then had to use the atomic bomb.Yes, there we can clearly see how politics directs the war. The Japanese were going to be crushed; they couldn't resist. The justifications they want to give us today are just that, justifications. Thus, World War II is an event of great significance. The prestige of the USSR rose high above the earth.
Regarding the atomic bomb, Chairman Gonzalo says:
(...) seeing the political essence that directs the war, weapons are used for political objectives; that little bomb killed a whopping 60,000 people in Hiroshima; Nagasaki, there were 145,000, and yet Hiroshima is commemorated or remembered more because it was the first time, but in Nagasaki, there were 145,000 more.
These are events of transcendence that shaped people's minds in those turbulent times.