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Originally Posted by Nightshift
Hmmm, interesting take on this.
It isnt a crime to drop a bomb on an industrial city when you are at war with the country that the city is in, that indeed is "war", no crime was commited, the Germans did it for months on London, the nature of the weapon is irrelevant.
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And who you think decides it wasn't a crime?
Along with the spoils of victory, the victors decide on the dispensation of justice.
The Soviet Union was never prosecuted for being Germany's ally and co- invader of Poland in 1939, nor for its mass extermination of Polish officers at Katyn.
It wasn't brought to trial for its crimes against humanity when it annexed Lithuania, Estonia and Latvia where tens of thousands were sent to labour camps in the Soviet Union never to be seen again. Nor was it prosecuted when it went to war with Finland, all at a time when it was Germany's ally.
Then there were the atrocities committed by the Soviets against civilian populations in Eastern Europe and Germany as an "ally" of the West.
Lets not forget the million odd German POWs that died at the hands of the Soviets.
Steven