Just came across this absolute trashfire of a book by an American prof. I know these revisionist takes about WWII are a dime a dozen… but this one seems particularly egregious in its claims that Stalin masterminded World War II and that the only reason for the USSR’s success was that the stupefied Allies fell for his dastardly plan.
This level of brazen stupidity and/or disingenuousness borders on incomprehensible.
how in the fuck could Stalin possibly be to blame for japanese imperialism?
perfidious communist trickery pulling the japanese empire into a war it could never win, obviously.
poor widdle hirohito just wanted to enslave half of asia and all the countries denying their resources to that project and helping the chinese forced japan to be violent about it!