Tag: 1945

This photo taken on Aug. 5 shows protesters gathering at Hiroshima Atomic Bomb Dome, Hiroshima, Japan to criticize the Japanese government's ongoing military buildup policies. (Xinhua/Jia Haocheng)

Japan: 80 Years on – Reckoning with War Remains Unfinished! (7.8.2025)

The voices underscored a national memory shaped more by the narrative of victimhood than by a full reckoning with the causes and consequences of war, which offered a glimpse into how Japan remembers and forgets its wartime past.

While the physical scars of nuclear devastation are meticulously documented in museums and memorials, Japan’s aggressive wartime conduct is conspicuously muted in both public discourse and state education.

Outside the official ceremony, anti-militarist demonstrators gathered near the atomic bombing site. Their placards decried Japan’s growing defence budget and the possibility of nuclear “sharing” with the U.S.

They were kept outside the formal event by riot police, while right-wing activists tried to drown them out with loudspeakers.

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One of the Last Photographs of Adolf Hitler - March 1945

UK: My Experience with Gerrard Williams and His Book “Grey Wolf”! (25.6.2025)

The Soviet version was unconvincing because they could not be sure. On top of this, the Cold War mentality of the West declared the USSR and Nazi Germany to be exactly the same – despite the former being our ally and the latter our mortal enemy. This was at a time that Churchill brought 10,000 Ukrainian SS War Criminals to the UK to escape Soviet Justice – and Canada would eventually raise a monument to these Nazi-collaborators in a War Cemetery for Canadians who had died during Dieppe and D-Day! Meanwhile, the Catholic Church assisted thousands of fascist and Nazi War Criminals to flee to “safe” Catholic countries in Central and South America. Many Nazi War Criminals DID escape – and it is well-known that they did. Moreover, the US absolved a number of these individuals and used them to work for NASA and NATO! I found it interesting at the time how angry and adamant many people became when it was suggested Hitler might had survived the war! Oddly, a good proportion did appear to be right-wing! It seemed very important for their contemporary plans that Hitler remains dead and buried in the past! Anyway, the photograph is the only part of my interaction I can find at the moment – so here it is. Should I re-discover my email exchanges with Gerrard and his colleagues – I will add them to this missive!

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Bodies Dissolved and Left Their "Shadows" - Hiroshima!

UK: The 2001 Internet Possossed Genuine Freedom of Speech – Whilst the PLA Prepared to Cut the Head & Tale off the Snake! (20.6.2025)

In the post-911 hysteria (where the US continued with its delusional position that American lives are worth more than any other lives) I was writing on the British Born Chinese Forum – owned and run by the former UK Social Worker – Steve Lam. I had previously posted for a time on  the “Dimsum” Forum run by a Trotskyite named “Sarah Yeh” – (until we had a “disagreement”) – both bourgeois individuals. I posted under my Chinese name of “Heng Yu” (恒豫) – a Caodong gongfu lineage name used by my Chinese relatives on a daily basis (pronounced “Hung Yaw” in Cantonese). Now, at around this time (2001) I was introduced to a very well-respected Hakka-Chinese man in London’s Chinatown – named Jabez Lam. He was left-wing, a Socialist and worked for the rights of ordinary Chinese restaurant-workers (he had even appeared on Channel 4 regarding Mainland Chinese and the perceived discrimination they suffer in the UK). I met him a few times in Gerrard Street (he knew of and respected Master Chan Tin Sang) and talked with him over the telephone many times regarding what he knew about prominent members of the British-born Chinese community – and there was some tasty morsels. So tasty, in fact, that all the problems I was having with one or two ethnic Chinese individuals in the UK (primarily online – as they lacked the bollocks to meet me in my weekly gongfu class) – just melted away when they realised I know about the skeletons in their cupboards.

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Russia: 81th Anniversary of the Liberation of Leningrad from Nazi German & Finnish Tyranny! (27.1.2025)

At the Piskaryovskoye Memorial Cemetery of St Petersburg (Leningrad), the President laid a wreath at the Motherland monument to honour the memory of the fallen Leningrad residents and defenders.

At least 420,000 civilians of Leningrad who died from starvation, cold, and disease, or in air-raids, as well as 70,000 soldiers are buried in the cemetery’s 186 communal graves and 6,000 individual military graves.

The memorial wall behind the Motherland monument carries the words by poet Olga Bergholz: “No one is forgotten, nothing is forgotten.”

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UN Began With Good Intentions!

Russia: USSR and [1945] Founding of the UN 80 Years Ago! (21.1.2025)

The creation of the United Nations was the result of the Great Victory in World War II, which was achieved thanks to an unparalleled feat performed by Soviet soldiers and millions of lives of citizens of the USSR, as well as of other states that were part of the Allied troops. The Soviet Union, the successor country to which Russia is now, was at the origins of the UN. It was in Moscow in the autumn of 1943 that the Allies, i.e. representatives of the USSR, the United Kingdom and the USA, agreed to establish an international organisation to protect future generations from another global conflict. Russia then took the leading role in the process, and the idea was refined and finally put into practice at the San Francisco Conference in 1945. The UN became the core of the system developed at the Yalta and Potsdam Conferences, with the UN Charter setting out the fundamental norms of international law that formed the Decalogue for the behaviour of states in the international arena.

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