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>China celebrating victory while essentially being a massive punching bag
>Be WW2 China
>Japan is going to capture a random rail hub city to further their war efforts
>Decide to intentionally flood one of the largest rivers in China to halt their advance
>Don't bother telling any of those dumb peasants to evacuate areas down river
>Directly kill ~500,000 Chinese civilians and leaving ~12 million without homes
>0 direct Japanese casualties as a result of the flood
>In 8 years of fighting Japan only kill around 480,000 ethnic Japanese soldiers
I can understand celebrating it as a day of liberation, but why even try to frame it as a victory over Japan? China had one of the highest death tolls of WW2 and some absurd number like 60% were killed by other Chinese. Even with Japan leaving Manchuria and leaving shitty reserve corps there to defend it, China couldn't even muster the strength to recapture it and the Soviets took it and had to hand it over afterwards.