If May 8th was victory day for WW2 why did the US keep fighting until August. What war were they fighting… so confused
Edit. Holy cow you gullible idiots. Of course it’s a joke. VE Day was “victory Europe.” For the US to rename it as victory ww2 day is stupid since the US continued fighting until August. Russia didn’t fight Japan so they had May Day as a celebratory date. Trump is an idiot and so some others…
The Soviets did fight Japan and were a significant factor in the Japanese capitulation. But the victory against Nazi Germany was far more important to them.
Feel free to share some sources to support your comments They had a nonaggression pack which lasted until Germany surrendered and Russia didn’t brake it until the US had dropped the Bomb.
https://thediplomat.com/2012/08/the-forgotten-soviet-japanese-war-of-1939/
Literally from the Wikipedia link you listed:
The Soviet Union and Mongolian People’s Republic toppled the Japanese puppet states of Manchukuo in Manchuria and Mengjiang in Inner Mongolia, as well as northern Korea, Karafuto on the island of Sakhalin, and the Kuril Islands. The defeat of Japan’s Kwantung Army helped bring about the Japanese surrender and the end of World War II. The Soviet entry into the war was a significant factor in the Japanese government’s decision to surrender unconditionally, as it was made apparent that the Soviet Union was not willing to act as a third party in negotiating an end to hostilities on conditional terms.
Not that the writing wasn’t on the wall for the Japanese thanks to the US efforts in the war, but that wasn’t enough for them to surrender just yet. It’s speculated that the Soviet entry may have been more important than the A-bomb in the end.
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No because you didn’t put an /s and I have to always have a sense of being right for points. I have grown to hate how pedantic Lemmy gets sometimes now days. Can’t make a joke without a six page essay so morons don’t get confused in their rush to feel superior.
Bro is that a serious question? Germany capitulated on May 8th, Japan continued to fight. Japan only capitulated after the two atomic bombs were dropped on Nagaaki and Hiroshima.
Not sure if you’re trolling, but the Pacific Front was a pretty big deal for America. The Japanese didn’t surrender alongside the Germans.
The point top-level comment was making is that “VE” day clarifies that the fight continued on after the defeat of the Nazis.
He knows the Soviets beat the Allies to Berlin, right?
Oh who am I kidding. If it’s not printed on a menu and handed out with crayons, he’s unaware.
If we’re being honest, the Soviets lost more and won more in WW2 than any of the other Allies.
Dont forget Chinese contribution to ending ww2
I’ve said it before, and i’ll keep saying it.
The whole world should pay for his beloved wall. And we should build it too! Around the whole country!
Not to keep the “aliens” out. But to keep the americans in.
The President of this country north of the Gulf of Mexico appears to become weirder and weirder every day, no?
No I think it’s more a matter of revealing what was already there
saying ‘nobody was close to us in terms of bravery
Yeah tell that to the 13 million dead Sowjet soldiers.
For perspective that is more than the current inhabitants of Belgium or Bolivia.
Adding 14 million dead Soviet citizens - 27 million dead, that’s more people than currently living in Australia.
Or the British SAS that were busy from the very beginning of the war… Or the British soldiers that tried help France against the imvasion.
Or the Dutch and the French resistance.
Or the Danish government, who through surrender and platitudes, kept the Nazis distracted while the Danish, Swedish, and Nordic Underground smuggled Jews and dissenters to America.
Or the British soldiers that tried help France against the imvasion.
Or to smuggle out the portrait of the Fallen Madonna with the big boobies in a salami.
(Edit: woke up and fixed the title)
Why was her boobie in a salami? Artists are weird.
Is it the Great Patriotic War there too now?
But we honestly shouldn’t give attention to every little American fart.
Oh dear God, I am so so so very tired of saying “What a fucking moron,” every goddam time I see a headline with his name in it.
I was over it four years ago and it feels like some cruel joke that I’m saying it again day after day.
I literally don’t understand how renaming “Victory in Europe” day to “Victory Day for World War Two” downplays the role of allied forces. Also, what are they calling VP day now?
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