Under the security alliance with the United States, Japan has served as a bulwark against an expansion of the Soviet communist bloc and China's hegemonic ambitions since the end of World War II. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/08/14/japan/politics/bulwark-us/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #politics #sovietunion #us #china #usjapanrelations #atomicbombings #wwii
Vladimir Putin has been rehabilitating Josef Stalin for more than two decades — and reviving some of the worst elements of the Soviet era in the process. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/commentary/2025/08/03/world/glory-to-stalin/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #commentary #worldnews #communistparty #russia#nikitakhrushchev #josefstalin #vladimirputin #sovietunion
An 87-year-old Japanese woman has been advocating the importance of peace by recounting her harrowing return to Japan from former Manchuria, now northeastern China, through a "kamishibai" picture story show. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/07/31/japan/manchuria-experience-story/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #manchuria #china #wwii #sovietunion
@maridonkers you only have to look at people in charge of NATO which you evidently never have
@yogthos Yes, it's true some people in charge of #NATO early on had a past in the German army. But this was right after the war, and the main idea was to bring West Germany into the group to stand strong against the #SovietUnion . They were picked for their military knowledge, not for their old loyalties. NATO has changed a lot since then, and this old history doesn't show what NATO is today.
Former residents of islands off the coast of Hokkaido, driven off by a Soviet invasion at the end of World War II, want the government to convince Russia to allow them to visit their ancestral grave sites on the islands. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/07/22/japan/northern-territories-grave/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #hokkaido #russia #russiajapanrelations #sovietunion #wwii #kunashiri #etorofu #shikotan #habomai #northernterritories
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Exclusive: Top #Trump Adviser Sergio Gor Was Born in the #SovietUnion
Gor had previously declined to say where he was born. The December 2024 profile of Gor by the Washington Post — which noted his low public profile, despite becoming a “powerful man” in the Trump administration — skirted the question of his birthplace entirely. It called him an immigrant from the #Mediterranean island nation of Malta.
Exclusive: Top #Trump Adviser Sergio Gor Was Born in the #SovietUnion
Gor had previously declined to say where he was born. The December 2024 profile of Gor by the Washington Post — which noted his low public profile, despite becoming a “powerful man” in the Trump administration — skirted the question of his birthplace entirely. It called him an immigrant from the #Mediterranean island nation of Malta.