Translator’s Note: I am continuously critical of modern Russia – simply because as a collective – the Russian people betrayed the 1917 Revolution during 1991!
Tag: Pacific Fleet
China: 1942 Sinking of the ‘Lisbon Maru’ – US War Crime? (29.8.2022)
The ship named the ‘Lisbon Maru’ was carrying around 2,000 British POWs (British military personnel captured during the fall of Hong Kong being transported to Japan) when the ship was hit by a torpedo fired by the USS Grouper (part of the 81st US Pacific Fleet Submarine Force) on October 2nd, 1942! The ‘Lisbon Maru’ sank just off the Zhoushan (Zhejiang) area of the East China coast! It is reported that although 843 British POWs died due to drowning (and the machine-gunning of men in the water by other elements of the Imperial Japanese Navy active in the area) – another 384 British POWs were saved by the actions of local Chinese fishermen!
Background to the Soviet-Japanese War (August 8th – September 7th 1945)
Churchill and Roosevelt had discussed (in secret) the possibility of ‘weakening’ the USSR through its war with Nazi Germany. This did not work-out as planned, however,
SANGHA KOMMUNE (SSR) 