I've visited the museum in the titular city, and it's clear they're trying hard to turn it into a grift similar to the Holocaust grift.
They can talk about how horrible it was though literally six months later, after losing months-long battle at Xuzhou, the KMT military intentionally broke the levees on part of the Yellow River to flood large sections of land. It caused at least twice as many deaths as the agreed-upon Nanjing massacre death toll over the course of the flood's existence. Sure, it stopped the Japanese from reaching China's military core and reusing the transit systems but it's a mildly poor justification for the damage it caused.
Oh the Nationalist military in China were WOEFULLY bad, their self inflicted body count was massive, the main reason why the commies gained enough support after the war to take over.
Plus they can try with the Rape of Nanjing but then you'll have to also mention that thousands were saved thanks to foreign emissaries especially a Nazi party member
Personally I feel like Nanjing grift is more the CCP trying to deflect how much damage they've done to the country themselves. Because thinking about all the things under Mao could practically dwarf the amount of slaughtering Imperial Japan did.
And also having a longstanding deathwish against Japan
I've visited the museum in the titular city, and it's clear they're trying hard to turn it into a grift similar to the Holocaust grift.
They can talk about how horrible it was though literally six months later, after losing months-long battle at Xuzhou, the KMT military intentionally broke the levees on part of the Yellow River to flood large sections of land. It caused at least twice as many deaths as the agreed-upon Nanjing massacre death toll over the course of the flood's existence. Sure, it stopped the Japanese from reaching China's military core and reusing the transit systems but it's a mildly poor justification for the damage it caused.
Oh the Nationalist military in China were WOEFULLY bad, their self inflicted body count was massive, the main reason why the commies gained enough support after the war to take over.
Plus they can try with the Rape of Nanjing but then you'll have to also mention that thousands were saved thanks to foreign emissaries especially a Nazi party member
Personally I feel like Nanjing grift is more the CCP trying to deflect how much damage they've done to the country themselves. Because thinking about all the things under Mao could practically dwarf the amount of slaughtering Imperial Japan did.
And also having a longstanding deathwish against Japan
Yep, they're pulling a North Korea.