TV series: The Untold History of the United States. Page 1
But President Truman's intolerance was born long before reports of Japanese atrocities appeared. Будучи ещё молодым человеком, он писал своей жене: «Ни один человек не лучше другого, если он честен и порядочен, не ниггер и не китаец. Uncle Will said that God created a white man out of dust, a black man out of dirt, and then threw up what was left and it turned out to be a Chinese.
A Time magazine article said, “The average Japanese is stupid and ignorant. He may be human, but there is no indication of that."
On the other hand, Stalin was in no hurry to make revolutionary changes, if he wanted them at all. As in the case of Greece, he recognized that the Communists, who often played a leading role in the fight against fascism, were a minority in most of the liberated countries. Not sharing Trotsky's desire for a world revolution, Stalin once said that "communism fits Poland like a cow's saddle."
At the beginning of 1942, the Japanese dealt another powerful blow to the allies ... in Singapore, which was part of the British Empire. There were more British troops here than in England itself. 80,000 troops, most of them Australians, were captured. But the true feelings of the inhabitants of the colonies became clear when, out of 55,000 captured soldiers of the Indian army, 40,000 went over to the side of the Japanese.
Missouri Senator Harry Truman told the Senate in 1941: “If we see Germany winning, we must help Russia, and if Russia wins, we will help Germany. And let them kill each other as much as possible.”
Even more depressing was the reaction of the international community to the civil war in Spain. The fighting began in July 1936, when General Franco decided to overthrow the government of the Spanish Republic and establish a fascist regime in the country. <...> Hitler and Mussolini provided him with material assistance and sent thousands of soldiers. Hitler sent Franco his Condor Legion, which bombed Guernica. This bombardment became the subject of a famous painting by Pablo Picasso.
Hitler's ally, the leader of the Italian fascists, Benito Mussolini, invaded Ethiopia in October 1935. The US, France and Britain did nothing to prevent this. As a result, Hitler came to the conclusion that these countries were not ready to fight.
The first shots were fired in 1931, when the rapidly developing Japan pushed the Kwantung army into Manchuria and defeated the Chinese troops.
Nearby, a bomb is fixed on top of a steel tower and will be tested for the first time today. The code name is Trinity. Robert Oppenheimer was inspired by the poems of his favorite poet, John Donne. He loved poetry and the wilderness of the southwestern United States. This peace-loving man, by chance, became the creator of the most destructive weapon in history. <...> At five o'clock twenty-nine minutes forty-five seconds the bomb exploded. The flash of a nuclear explosion is brighter than the Sun. Watching him, Oppenheimer remembered the lines from the sacred book of Hinduism: "Thus I became death, the destroyer of the universe." Bhagavad Gita. With the testing of this terrible weapon, the transformation of a peaceful country created by the founding fathers into a militarized state began.
