Atrocious Acts Committed by the “Good Guys”

the old saying goes history is written by the winners that's as true today as ever despite the fact the media has been much more comprehensive in the past hundred years or so many people are unaware of the abuses committed by the groups that most people consider to be the good guys much time is spent on propaganda to make your own side seem as nice as possible highlighting the good and covering up or minimizing the bat however despite their best attempts the countries that are often seen as the good side of the conflict do many things that are beyond what most of us would consider acceptable in order to achieve victory Bob just because they wanted to in the video today we're looking at some of these the boedo League Massacre a sore South Korea murder accomplice suspected communists many people wonder why the North Koreans have such a feisty relationship with South Koreans to this day apart from the fact that they are both still technically at war with each other after all these days South Korea seems like a very nice place that has its business together and takes good care of its citizens at least compared to their neighbors to the north the South Koreans are seen as a model country by most of the world however back during the days leading up to and into the Korean War things got increasingly brutal in a desperate bid to stop the advance of Kim il-sung from the north in the days leading up to the start of the Korean War the fear of communism was on the rise the South Korean government had about 300,000 people enrolled in the so-called bodø League they were basically being registered as suspected communists or communist sympathizers in 1950 during the Korean War countless bodo League members who had been imprisoned were executed rather than left behind to potentially join the enemy to make matters worse many civilians and multiple villagers were killed for being Bodo League members again this was simply for fear that they'd throw in their lot with the North Koreans for several decades the South Korean government did their best to cover the whole thing up and make it look like it had all been done by the Communists in the first place unfortunately due to the cover-up the total death toll may never be known some estimate that the death toll could have been in the 100,000 to 200,000 range while others but the number considerably lower regardless of the final death counts there is also knowledge that the United States military leadership was aware of the massacres and at the very least was fully complete in the South Koreans actions the United States mercilessly firebombs North Korea during the Korean War the North Koreans hate the United States with a blazing passion that many in that country can only understand as a level of propaganda well beyond the North however while the North Koreans do make use of a staggering amounts of national brainwashing and propaganda they actually have very very good reason to hate the United States to begin with the Korean War went into a ceasefire that never officially ended though both sides are closer than they've ever been to doing so that means that the u.s. is still their enemy worse however is that America's actions during the war were far worse than the Budo League massacre fresh off bombing every living thing on the islands of Japan general Curtis LeMay in charge of the bombing campaign of North Korea wanted to get this done as quickly and efficiently as possible using the same methods it used to such brutal effect in Japan during World War two he decided to bomb just about every date of infrastructure he could especially civilian towns and installations and used fire bombing on a regular basis the North Koreans didn't have the kind of anti-air capabilities that Japan had so they were largely helpless to defend themselves from this kind of sustained bombing campaign many many years later when there was no real chance of him being punished for his actions LeMay casually brags that the u.s. had probably killed about 20% of the North Korean population the United States forced in turns Japanese to stand and salute the flag one of the things the United States really really hates for you to mention is the internment of japanese-americans during World War two while it is something well known at this point many of the worst abuses are still not talked about much in history class and most people know little about it if they're not of Japanese American ancestry while we only go into all of the abuse is here the irony is that most of the people interns didn't have the kind of recent enough connection to Japan to have any chance of spying for the enemy if that wasn't silly enough adults and specially children were still expected despite being forced into camps to say the Pledge of Allegiance before the American flag every morning it's a tragic bit of irony that this was happening at the same time that the United States was fighting for those being unfairly treated and denied their freedom in other parts of the world it also calls into question the reasoning behind the practice of force patriotism if you're forcing loyalty how can you be sure it's genuine in the end it was a darkened better period in American history with so many loyal japanese-americans having their lives ripped out from under them while simultaneously being forced to show loyalty to the very people and patriotism for the country to put them in the camps to begin with at the end of World War two a huge portion of Eastern Europe was ceded to Stalin for those who weren't aware of this issue it's actually quite a big deal in some parts of Europe and is often referred to as Western betrayal the claim is that in the lead-up to World War two in the days following the West did not fully fulfill their obligations to Eastern Europe and pretty much gave them up to others for their own safety for starters the first argument is that the United Kingdom in Europe at large had a moral and legal obligation to protect Poland's when Germany first invaded and failed to properly fulfill that part of the bargain the term is also used to refer to how the United Kingdom and the United States basically just ceded a huge portion of Eastern Europe to Stalin and consigned many countries to decades of horrific Soviet rule several meetings with Stalin especially the Yalta Conference the allies especially the United States gave away most of Eastern Europe to Stalin without any real fight diplomatic or otherwise Churchill was so alarmed especially by how much Franklin Roosevelt gave up that he wrote his famous speech about the Iron Curtain and Penn's a plan called operation unthinkable which consisted of a plan to go toward directly with the Soviets and stop them as quickly as possible many in Eastern Europe will never forget that the Allies allowed Stalin to have much of what he wanted with little real argument so that they could have their own comfortable peace and security the u.s. in turns and enslaved German civilians in old concentration camps history is written by the victors and the West won World War two with a lot of help from Russia so the West has written a rather rosy version of its part in the war however the United States and the other allies have a lot to answer for when it comes to their post-war behavior far from acting like wonderful liberators who care deeply for the rest of the world they went about acting like a ruthless conquerors who only wanted to punish and control tens of millions of ethnic Germans were forcibly migrated back to the ruins of the former Third Reich even though they had done nothing wrong and were simply civilians living their lives hundreds of thousands I believed to have died due to this migration to make matters worse the Allies used many German civilians as slave labor in order to make the German people pay for what had happened in World War two they kept many of these Germans in former concentration camps throughout the once-proud Nazi Empire and while some tried to justify the sort of action most simply tried to sweep it under the rug because of the terrible implications it has what many Nazi leaders were being tried for crimes at Nuremberg simultaneously the Allies were still committing what could be argued where their own war crimes and not holding others like Curtis LeMay responsible for their past atrocities it's sad evidence that the victors can easily cover up anymore for things they do and make it hard for it to ever take hold in the minds of future generations just how cruel they could really be there were reports after world war two of American soldiers raping French women the United States likes to boast that they saved everyone during World War two and that the world should be forever grateful however there were many countries that were liberated by the United States who may not necessarily feel that they did such a great job or that they didn't extract more than enough payments for their services one country that probably doesn't think the US was such stand-up guys the French a country that has a very very long history with the USA in a way the French are in large part responsible for the very independence that the United States enjoys today and the United States put a lot of work into liberating France from the Nazis however when the French came to help the United States and the colonial days they were not known for abusing American citizens something that the Americans certainly did due to the French after the invasion of Normandy reports started to creep into the hundreds and there may have been many more than one reported that the French were having a problem with American servicemen raping French women the French even complained that the rape problem hadn't nearly been as bad with the Germans after the war ended there were many American soldiers waiting in France to go home and some complains that they were not only raping women but also basically looting whatever they wanted while walking around with a swagger that did not make the French feel like they were dealing with their friendly neighborhood liberators unfortunately war does bring out the worst in people and too many United States in France during World War two when their exception to this rule many French citizens went vigilante and humiliatingly punished Nazi sympathizing women many French citizens went full vigilante after the war and decided to punish those who had collaborated with Nazis however instead of going after French men who had aided the enemy they decided to take out their eye on civilian women gangs of men would round up women suspected of being former Nazi sympathizers and bring them before a crowd where their heads would be shaved to Mark and humiliate them in many cases the women would then be further humiliated by being forced into an open truck and paraded around to a drum beat often being stripped half naked and if at our door covered with Nazi imagery to mark and as a collaborator well some people may think this was one of the lighter things done to Nazi collaborators part of the issue is that many of these women did little to nothing wrong at all a great deal were prostitutes who slept with anyone German or otherwise for sheer survival UNS may have found their lives in danger if they went around refusing to sleep with german soldiers during the occupation many of the young victims were teenagers who hung out with german soldiers because they were bored and didn't really understand fully what they were doing some simply worked as cleaning ladies at Nazi officers this awful and ugly display showed how nasty humans can be rather than seeking out the true collaborators who caused actual harm a bunch of angry civilians basically humiliated and punished a bunch of women who in many cases simply gave up their bodies in order to survive the Ukrainian Canadian internment and the war Measures Act in World War one Canada today Canada is pretty universally seen as the nicest and most polite country on Earth Canada loves taking in refugees and helping them become useful Canadian citizens and is known for being tolerant of anyone of any nationality or religious backgrounds however Canada has not always been the same place that it is today and has not always been quite so kind back during World War two Canada was at war with the austro-hungarian Empire and was so worried about the influence of potential enemy aliens within their relatively sparsely populated country that they took a very hard line there were about 80,000 Ukrainians who had austro-hungarian citizenship and all of them were forced to register with the government on top of that almost 9,000 ukrainian canadians were actually rounded up and forced into internment camps and were often used for forced labor as if that wasn't cruel enough a large amounts of the young men who ended up in these camps been trying to cross the border into the United States to find work because they found it increasingly hard in Canada or after registering and looking bad to their fellow citizens it may sound ridiculous to be arrested for trying to leave but after being registered if you were an enemy alien you were not allowed to leave until all suspicion was cleared while the majority were never interns they still found it very hard to get work and those who were interns had their money at least temporarily confiscated by the Government of Canada hundreds of thousands of torture instances by French military in Algeria most in the United States probably haven't heard about it but starting back in 1954 and lasting until 1962 Algeria had a war for independence with France the Algerians were trying to fight their way out of colonial rule and brutally fought with all they had in order to gain their independence as the war drags on the Algerians committed countless acts of torture against the French forces however instead of trying to stick to the Geneva Convention the French forces decided to fight fire with fire and went into full-on torture mode right back at the Algerians they used a rather convenient excuse claiming that the Algerian national liberation fronts the group fighting for independence were simply a group of terrorists and there was no war going on as far as France would publicly declare it was only attempting to quell terrorism so they didn't need to treat the people captured as prisoners of war or pay attention to any kind of international rules this atmosphere led to an absolutely horrific amount of abuses and is something the French dislike being brought up to this very day some historians estimate that there were hundreds of thousands of instances of torture by the French military against the NLF during the Algerian War of Independence if that wasn't bad enough for the French despite completely ceding the moral high ground and torturing countless people the French did not even succeed and Algeria gained its independence so I'm not going to ask 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Length: 13min 36sec (816 seconds)

Published: Wed Oct 24 2018