Comments by "vk2ig" (@vk2ig) on "Russian Invasion of China - Operation August Storm 1945" video.

@danielabramson2464 One thing that continually amazes me about that region - how much the people there hate each other. I think the Middle East is the only rival for that status. Years ago I was speaking with someone whose parents had emigrated from the former Yugoslavia - his family had come from Slovenia, and he told me how a great grandfather had been killed by one of the opposing forces in that country, and how his family still remembered it. I was surprised at this, and told him how the Germans had killed one of my great uncles in WW2 but we didn't hold any grudges against the German people - to which he replied "It's different for us. It's very hard to forget a death in the family." With elephantine memories like that, it was no wonder they were at each other's throats in the 1990s!
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@uingaeoc3905 "The UK has a commonwealth, of which it is now just a single member" - not quite correct. Many of the former British colonies chose to remain in the Commonwealth Of Nations, - typically referred to as The Commonwealth - which consists of 56 member states. The head of The Commonwealth is Queen Elizabeth II. QE II is the head of state of 15 of those member states - the rest are republics or have their own monarch.
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@cockatyusha2359 Someone would've eventually ousted any government led by Chiang Kai-shek and replaced it with a government which redistributed wealth, etc, i.e. Communist.
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@whygodwhy1388 And possibly the first shots fired at a ship by the Allies in WW2 were from the guns at Fort Nepean, on Port Phillip Bay, Victoria, Australia, when an unidentified ship tried to leave harbour in the very early hours of 4 September 1939.
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@lautoka63 The Japanese mini-submarine hit the wrong ship, too. They were trying to sink the USS Chicago which as anchored in the harbour, but the torpedo missed and hit the sea wall adjacent to the training ship HMAS Kuttabul, sinking her and killing many sailors onboard. Three submarines got past the anti-submarine nets into Sydney Harbour that night. None of the crews survived. Two submarines were destroyed in the harbour. The fate of the third was unknown until its wreck was discovered near Lion Island in the early 2000's, outside the harbour and off Sydney's Northern Beaches.
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@uingaeoc3905 I guess we can let the readers judge ... some others have had the same misunderstanding as mine, LOL.
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@chriskortan1530 You're probably trying to convert one of Vladimir's fan boys ... no chance of success there.
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