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Interesting Facts About The Korean War 1950-53

posted 8 years ago by bloody-3
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The nationalist Chinese who had been forced to abandon the mainland and were located on Taiwan wanted to join in the fight against the communist Chinese forces and were willing to send troops but this was rejected by the Truman administration -
https://jamesperloff.com/2014/03/29/the-korean-war-another-conflict-that-served-the-illuminati-agenda/
The Soviet Union claimed to be neutral but Stalin supplied communist China and North Korea with Mig fighter planes, arms and ammunition, tanks and military advisors -
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_Union_in_the_Korean_War
It is possible that there may have not even been a Korean war if not for the appeasement of Stalin by Roosevelt. The soviet communists were given part of Korea in return for their participation in the war against Japan which was minimal at best and occurred just before that country surrendered -
www.jrbooksonline.com/fdr-scandal-page/fdr.html

[–] iamtherealbg 8 years ago

And in other parts of Korea, a doctor walks through a Post Op ward wearing a silly hat, fake glasses and mustache and flippers. Apparently the bus stopped with a jerk and he got off.

[–] indy_go_blue44 8 years ago

It is possible that there may have not even been a Korean war if not for the appeasement of Stalin by Roosevelt. The soviet communists were given part of Korea in return for their participation in the war against Japan which was minimal at best and occurred just before that country surrendered -

Had the people working on the Manhattan Project been 6 months quicker, FDR wouldn't have felt that he needed Soviet assistance in the final battle with Japan, but inasmuch as the Imperial Army still had a million soldiers in China and "Manchukuo" he was fearful of them being brought home to strengthen the final defense. So Russia agreed at Yalta to enter the war 3 months after the German war ended- and had the Manhattan Project been just 1 month quicker the war would have been over before the Soviets sent their forces east that invaded Manchuria and occupied the northern half of the Korean peninsula.

[–] bloody-3 8 years ago

It was Roosevelt and later Truman's insistence on the policy of unconditional surrender that kept the war going. The Japanese were prepared to surrender at the start of 1945 based on a negotiated peace with the emperor kept as head of state. Roosevelt refused and insisted on unconditional surrender. There could have been peace with Japan even before the war was over in Europe -
http://whatreallyhappened.com/WRHARTICLES/pearl/www.geocities.com/Pentagon/6315/truman.html

[–] indy_go_blue44 8 years ago

I'm sorry, I'd have to see contemporary documentation for this writer's assertions, not statements from a decade or more later, before I accepted them as other than... to use modern parlance... alternative facts.

[–] indy_go_blue44 8 years ago

I have a "Korean War" board game from the 80s with some interesting facts about the war:

About 1/3 of the NK People's Army were vets of the just concluded Chinese Civil War. These repatriated NK's formed the NK 5, 6, and 7 Divisions.

Most US divisions were filled with SK volunteers, called KATUSAs, generally about 2,000 SKs per division. It didn't work it very well; the native lack of sanitation was the biggest problem; Americans felt they were filthy and ignorant.

The Turkish Brigade was the most feared combat group in the war. But in one instance, on 25 Nov 1950 the brigade, just 3 days in country, met a "Chinese onslaught" near Tokch'on. They defeated the attack and took several hundred prisoners. Unfortunately the "Chinese" were retreating ROK forces.

"An unhappy regiment was the 24th of the 25th Division, an all-black unit. Entering Korea in 1950, it was quickly routed in combat and gained the reputation as a 'bug out' unit. This is what triggered the integration of the US army, which was completed before the end of the Korean War."

[–] bloody-3 8 years ago

One of the major factors in why China went communist is appeasement of Stalin and Mao by the Roosevelt and Truman administrations. If China had not become a communist dictatorship I doubt there would have been a Korean War -
www.thenewamerican.com/culture/history/item/4691-china-betrayed-into-communism

[–] marktayloruk (2552) 3 years ago

Couldn't agree more. If only Truman hadn't had so.much faith in.Marshall.

[–] chilidoggg (14389) 3 years ago

This belongs in the Politics boards.

[–] Satan2016 (25750) 3 years ago

No such rule on IMDb.