[Marxism] Socialist Policy in World War Two

[Shane Mage]

On Jul 2, 2009, at 5:41 AM, G K Milner wrote:
> ...the Japanese ruling circle had seriously weighed up the option
> of attacking the USSR from the east in 1941, after the Nazi invasion.
> Probably the factor that deterred the Japanese was the memory of the  
> brief
> military struggle, in  the late 1930s...


Japan went to war because it was being strangled by the oil boycott.   
It had no reason to invade Siberia where there were no oil fields and  
a nonaggression treaty was in effect.


Shane Mage

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>
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