Chinese netizens don’t feel much sympathy for A-bomb victims

As October 1st, the Chinese national holiday, draws close, patriotic (and anti-Japanese) sentiments are high. A netizen recently posted pictures of Japanese victims of the atomic bombings in Hiroshima and Nagasaki on the popular China Mop BBS under the title “Photos of Japanese Victims of the Atomic Bombings, You Might Not Cheer When You Finish!” While the photos themselves are nothing new, they prompted some heated comments from Chinese netizens.

Read the translated responses to the photos over at China Smack!

[hat tip to Rick]

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6 comments - What do you think? Posted by James - September 25, 2009 at 6:02 am

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goat

The old man in the last photos, Tetsuo Sakurai, is not even a hibakusha… Apparently he’s had Hansen’s disease. Way to go trolls!
domo

Anyway, the chinese suffered greatly under the japanese occupation. Its not surprising they are not sympathetic.
Tensigh

I don’t mean to be cruel, but I find it almost laughable how many Chinese people become nationalistic and attack the Japanese when more Chinese died at the hands of Mao Tse Tung than by all the Japanese in WW2 combined.

No one has been crueler to the Chinese than other Chinese. Over 10 million Chinese dead at the hands of Mao. This is nothing to laugh at.

The ironic thing is, that same cruelty exists in China today. It’s called Communism.

The Overthinker

Harder to become nationalist against your own people/government. Especially in a totalitarian state like Communist China.
Canadian

Other than Mao’s revolution was from pressures made by the USSR. I’m Han by ethnicity but Chinese from PRC in general don’t blame Mao. They blame more on the USSR and the Sino-Soviet Disharmony.

You know it’s interesting to see that the Chinese Neo-Leftism (new wave of Maoism) is persecuted in China at present.

“The ironic thing is, that same cruelty exists in China today. It’s called Communism.”

Today’s China is Socialism with Chinese Characteristics. Not Communism. The status of Lenin is lowered UN-officially within China.

As a matter of fact, China’s doing very well on a slow pace of steady reformation. It’s making the Chinese Communist Party (not-so-Communist) from a bad party into a good one.
kit

sorry but they are two different events
so moa killed more chinese justify of what japanese did?
that makes no sense to me
just ask yourself what you did is right or wrong
dont think about others

Chinese netizens don’t feel much sympathy for A-bomb victims

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