Comments by "Voryn Rosethorn" (@vorynrosethorn903) on "PeriscopeFilm" channel.

  1. On the surface, but in fact much of it is actually untrue. The peasants no longer were tenants (that's not really how they even ran things in the first place, tenant feudalism was very much a European thing) there had been considerable land reform as well. The Japanese had made it very clear that they viewed sanctions as an existential threat, they didn't change on a dime. Basically all the little details are just wrong enough to not be picked up by someone unless they knew quite a lot about Japan during the period.
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  2. Certainly the most deadly that an infantry squad would have. I imagine it's one of the few bits of Japanese kit that the Americans would have liked for themselves, though the radio meant that waiting a bit would turn the contest quite one sided.
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  3. This is very inaccurate, it twists the truth quite considerably, especially about the domestic structure of Japan. Also the call against imperialism is a indirect attack on most of those united nations.
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  4. He is not technically lying but if he was fully truthful many troops almost certainly would have exaggerated their capability in their head. They didn't need similar outbreaks to the tiger panic (e.g. every german moving vehicle is a King Tiger, is invincible and is coming right at us), much better that they take higher casualties with overconfident newbies than that they build up the habit of scattering every time some takes a potshot at them, as that would lead to much higher casualties in the long run.
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  5. Logistics mostly, all these weapons were very good against the Chinese but they didn't have the ability to switch over due to limited resources and capabilities with all the commitments they had. Design also had the problem of increasing hostility between armed services and the fact that prestige was more important than sheer quality if you wanted something approved, you better have influential friends otherwise the commission would go to someone with high military rank. The politics by assassination really created a climate of fear and made people act in a way irrational if you don't thank in the context of young officers murdering politicians for not approving of their interpretation of patriotism in the right why, their were loads of different little factions of officers who did this so everyone was on eggshells as different things could insult different people and you likely wouldn't have even known about them before they targeted you.
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  6. To be fair due to the design they still would have been better in the trenches of WW1, the grand though put out such firepower as to basically be a step up from them even if they were exceptional as bolt actions (also later on it the war it was the katanas they really lowered the quality of, I've seen a late war one which had seen combat and come out looking like butter that had been of the wrong side of a hot knife, you can only go so far with the steel quality of guns before they start blowing up in your face and at that point you might as well issue them with sharpened bamboo instead).
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  7. If people want a history lesson Hong Kong was basically a small fishing village taken in war by the British as a trading port with China. It was not given freely, but then land seldom if ever is, certainly the concept of annexation was not questioned when both the British and Chinese were empires. As a trading port it grew under the British into a great city, it had a British ruling class but much of it was run by Chinese who moved their and willingly became British subjects. It would be taken by the Japanese in WW2 and they committed many crimes there, the British took it back at the end of the war. During the cold war many Chinese illegally fled into Hong Kong to escape Mao, there was also civil unrest organised and funded by the communists, unlike today the Chinese mafia (they aren't called that but it's what they are) supported the British and crushed the riots however the British later realised the corruption within the police and purged it, by the late 70's it became one of the best in the world, much better than the mainland British police who deteriorated over the same period. The army had to protect the borders from the Chinese communists (ccp) and so were a constant presence. The city was a great success story, it became one of the richest in the world and stayed that way until recently. The city and countryside had been taken in different wars and thus the land surrounding the city was meant to be given back in 97, the Chinese threatened to invade and British governments are weak so they agreed to give all of it, city included, to the Chinese. The Chinese wanted it as it would boost there economy at the time massively, the agreement was that British traditional practices (freedom of speech, expression and assembly, democratic voting and rule of law) would be respected for at least 40 years, as said British governments are weak. It was handed over in 97 and the treaty was broken a number of years ago, people started being disappeared for not supporting the government and when the population protested the police were reformed to become more mainland and set on the population, the mafia attacked the protesters and the Chinese army moved into the city. Hong Kongers have been given the right to move to the UK and many with the money to do so have, in time it is likely that most will and a distinct sino-anglo culture will be wiped out. There are still ironically many ethic brits in Hong Kong and they retain the privileged position they have always had, the population have a harder time dealing with the changes and while some hoped the British government would have grown a backbone and demanded Hong Kong back due to the breaking of the treaty they have increasingly settled for moving to Britain instead. They integrate well, Hong Kong is in many ways a mixture of British and traditional Chinese culture and mainland China had little of either, the mainlanders are much more foreign than the British who they are used to and have much in common with. Also ironically loads of Chinese students are being educated in the UK now, so when they go back much of the Chinese elite will also be used to British culture, from what I have seen there will be no political influence, they recognise that Britain is basically a failed state at this point but they do have considerably appreciation for the sort of Britain that used to exist and took Hong Kong from them, basically they are impressed by the Victorians, not by the British who exist now. We will see how things develop.
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