Comments on: Wars nobody has ever heard of, Part 1043

By: Alexei

Alexei — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

Surely you’re joking–every Russian has heard of Khalkhin Gol, although few know any specifics of that battle. For most, it’s just a minor episode, although it helped to keep Japan at bay later. BTW, nobody (loosely speaking) in Russia has heard of Iwo Jima–that is, everybody knows the US fought Japan in WWII and dropped the A-bomb but little more.

By: Andy

Andy — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

Yeah, you’re right, most people in Russia probably have heard of it, but who outside of Russia will have?

I’d certainly never heard of it until a couple of years ago. And I’ve been told many times that I qualify as a nobody. So there!

By: language hat

language hat — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

who outside of Russia will have?

I’m guessing Russian history was featured fairly prominently in the curricula of Comecon countries, so I imagine a lot of Eastern Europeans will have heard of it — not to mention the Japanese and Mongolians. In general, I’d say it’s dangerous to generalize from what Americans have never heard of to what anybody else has never heard of.

By: Blogo Slovo

Blogo Slovo — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

Wars in the Far East

Siberian Light discusses Wars Nobody has Ever Heard Of. “Everyone knows about the Russo-Japanese War of 1904-5. Russia sailed its entire Baltic fleet to Japan the long way around only to see it sunk by the better trained Japanese navy…