China's Decisive Role in Victory of World Anti-Fascist War
Victory over Japan is
celebrated in Chongqing, the wartime capital of China, September
3,
1945.
The Second World War ended in Europe when Germany surrendered on May 9, 1945 and the Red Flag was hoisted over the Reichstag in Berlin. In Asia, the war against the Japanese militarists continued in China and elsewhere in Asia until the defeat of Imperial Japan on August 15 and the official surrender of Japan aboard the USS Missouri in Tokyo Bay on September 2, 1945.
The official narrative about WWII in the East is that the war ended when Japan was forced to surrender after the U.S. dropped nuclear bombs on Hiroshima on August 6 and Nagasaki on August 9, taking the lives of close to 200,000 people. The fact is the million-strong Kwantung Army, part of the Japanese forces based in Manchuria, fought on against the Chinese forces and the Soviet Red Army which joined the war against Japan on August 9. The war ended after the collapse of the main Japanese forces on August 16, with sporadic fighting continuing until August 26, 1945.
Little information is provided by official historians in the west about China's decisive contribution to the peoples' victory in WWII. The 80th anniversary celebrations in China on September 3 show the world China's significant contributions to the anti-fascist struggle and to ending WWII. They honor and celebrate these great achievements, joined by peoples worldwide. Led by the Communist Party of China and the revolutionary leader Mao Zedong, the Chinese people made heroic sacrifices and outstanding contributions to the anti-fascist victory, as did the Koreans, Filipinos, Malaysians, Indonesians, and other peoples of East Asia. The achievements also show the falsification of history about the role of the U.S. in WWII, and in becoming the main pro-fascist, anti-communist force after the war.
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Mao Zedong leading
Chinese
guerilla forces in 1944. The failure of most historians to acknowledge China's contributions is deliberate. Like the denial of the decisive role of the Soviet Red Army in defeating the Nazis, this purposeful falsification of history is used to justify the plans of the U.S./NATO today, including Canada, for aggression against China and Russia, the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK), Iran and others.
In May of this year, the British historian Rana Mitter, author of Forgotten Ally: China's World War II, 1937-1945, was interviewed by China Daily and said that it is necessary and important to give China its due as one of two countries, the other being the Soviet Union, that withstood the worst of the fighting during WWII. He pointed out that Japanese aggression in China began on September 18, 1931, when Japanese forces blew up a section of railway near Liutiaohu, a false-flag operation staged to justify bombing the city. Japanese aggression expanded to full-scale war in 1937 following a skirmish between Chinese and Japanese troops at the Lugou Bridge near Beijing. In all, the Chinese people fought for 14 years to liberate their country from Japanese militarism.
Today, to its shame, Canada has joined the U.S., Britain, Australia, France, and other countries in boycotting the September 3 celebrations in Beijing to mark the liberation of China from the Japanese imperialists and the victory of the World Anti-Fascist War. The Canadian state is promoting anti-China vitriol, defaming the Chinese people, and instigating attacks against those of Chinese origin in Canada by claiming they are spies of the Chinese state intent on undermining Canadian institutions. It actively promotes anti-communist propaganda to denigrate the contributions of the Chinese people and the communist-led resistance in other countries of Asia that helped defeat the Japanese militarists and contributed to the victory of the peoples over the Axis powers. In lockstep with the U.S., the Carney Liberal government plans to spend tens of billions of dollars to build up Canada's military and engage in provocations in the Asia Pacific region to threaten China and the DPRK in the name of defending "Canadian values, freedom and democracy."
Recognizing the decisive contribution of the Chinese people and the peoples of Asia in defeating Japanese militarism is not only important for the historical record. It is the foundation upon which the Chinese and other peoples of Asia join with the people of Canada, the U.S. and worldwide to prevent another World War, and underscores stepping up our efforts to make Canada a Zone for Peace.
This article was published in
Volume 55 Number 33 - September 6, 2025
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