After all this I am not really bothered by juche gang posts, whether ironic or not, like damn. South Korea was just indefinitely worse than North Korea, it was like a fucking totalitarian state. It wasn’t until the 80s that the economic situation reversed. I mean I don’t think anyone should support the current regime but when you learn that more bombs were dropped on North Korea per capita than anywhere else in the world, ever, it becomes understandable why they’re seen as a backwards country with no development. The country was literally flattened by US bombing campaigns. And then you learn that Kim il sung gave rights to women while Rhee was murdering suspected communists by the thousands. The US was committing atrocities like No Gun Ri and yet in the common image America and South Korea are the good guys. I mean, fuck, I don’t think I can support the direction that Kim Jong un has taken North Korea in, but after learning this it solidifies my anti American views, there is officially no war after WW2 that America was justified in. I can’t believe that anti Korean War sentiment isn’t as high as anti Vietnam war, more people need to know about this
And yet America still managed to commit unconscionable atrocities in WW2, and in the Civil War managed to fuck up actually liberating slaves in the US. We've fucked up our only good wars.
Yeah, the only 'good' parts of the Civil War are the parts where some Confederate slaver ponce got blasted off his horse by a minie ball fired by some immigrant Union rifleman. The rest was mostly dudes shitting themselves to death between battles.
Other highlights: Union clapping themselves on the back letting Black people fight...towards the end of the war, in their own segregated unit...that ended up being one of the most decorated.