Who does this monument comemorate?

[Egorka]

@Rising_Sun

Google has failed me, but I think the reason that the horse, dog and pigeon statues exist is that Shinto treats all animals, including humans, as more or less equal.

I have a vague recollection that one of the essential principles of Shinto which was displaced or suppressed or expunged by the pre-war militarists was ‘Peace’.

The quote from the Khabarovsk trial of 1949 on the members of unit 731:
[INDENT][i]"Question: Are you a Shinto believer?

Answer: Yes.

Question: Your belief is gentle and kind; how can you use people in experiments, instead of rabbits?

Answer: The interests of our mission required this."[/i][/INDENT]
Source: http://search.japantimes.co.jp/member/member.html?eo20010605a1.htm

[Rising_Sun]

@Egorka

The quote from the Khabarovsk trial of 1949 on the members of unit 731:
[INDENT][i]"Question: Are you a Shinto believer?

Answer: Yes.

Question: Your belief is gentle and kind; how can you use people in experiments, instead of rabbits?

Answer: The interests of our mission required this."[/i][/INDENT]
Source: http://search.japantimes.co.jp/member/member.html?eo20010605a1.htm

Do you mean that the Soviets actually tried these people?

What an odd approach.

The Americans did a deal with them for their knowledge.

What on earth possessed the brutal Russkis, the enemies of democracy and freedom and justice, to bring these bastards to account while the democratic, free and just Americans overlooked things like live dissections on American POW’s to let the Harbin mongrels off the hook to get the knowledge gained in experiments that America, even in an era where its criminal prisoners were subjected to involuntary medical experimentation of a much lower order, could not have gained.

I suppose this just shows how morally superior the Americans were to the Soviets at war’s end, what with Werner von Braun and Gehlen and all. :evil:

[Egorka]

@Rising_Sun

Do you mean that the Soviets actually tried these people?

What an odd approach.

The Americans did a deal with them for their knowledge.

What on earth possessed the brutal Russkis, the enemies of democracy and freedom and justice, to bring these bastards to account while the democratic, free and just Americans overlooked things like live dissections on American POW’s to let the Harbin mongrels off the hook to get the knowledge gained in experiments that America, even in an era where its criminal prisoners were subjected to involuntary medical experimentation of a much lower order, could not have gained.

I suppose this just shows how morally superior the Americans were to the Soviets at war’s end, what with Werner von Braun and Gehlen and all. :evil:

I guess Werner von Braun was one of the most innocent ones of those ex nazies.

Regarding the Khabarovsk trial of 1949 and the cover up of the activities of unit 731 by McArthur here are some links:

“The United States and the Japanese Mengele: Payoffs and Amnesty for Unit 731 Scientists” By Christopher Reed ([b]with US document scans[/b]).

“The west’s Dismissal of the Khabarovsk trial as ‘Communist Propaganda’: Ideology, evidence and international bioethics”, Journal of Bioethical Inquiry, April 2004.

“The trial of Unit 731” By RUSSELL WORKING (on Khabarovsk trial). June 5, 2001. The Japan Times.

“Japanese Imperial Army Disclosure Act of 1999”, Congressional Record: November 10, 1999 (Senate), Page S14533-S14571. [b]Search fo word “Khabarovsk”[/b].

A Preliminary Review: “Studies of Japanese Biological Warfare Unit 731 in the United States” by Tien-wei Wu.