introduction
In ancient times, cold weapons with small lethality and a small range of damage were used on the battlefield. Therefore, no matter whether they win or lose, there are still many soldiers who can be spared death, but after modern times, countries led by the West have vigorously developed weapons and equipment technology, and modern weapons have a wide variety of weapons and amazing lethality. Under such circumstances, modern warfare is much more tragic than ancient warfare, and the damage caused is more pronounced.
As we all know, with the continuous development of human society, there are not a few wars that break out due to interest relations. It is impossible to know how many wars have broken out in human society over the past thousands of years, but one thing is certain that the harm of war to mankind is enormous and the loss is not worth the loss. Back in history, every outbreak of war has resulted in the injury and death of soldiers or civilians, and many families have been displaced. Taking China as an example, during the Prosperous Tang Dynasty, China's population was about 80 million, and after years of wars such as the Huangchao Rebellion, the population of China during the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period was only about 27 million.
▲ Old photos of the German army in World War II
In the 1930s and 1940s, Japan, Germany, and Italy launched World War II to realize their ambitions to dominate the world, and the whole world was shrouded in the smoke of war. Many countries and peoples spontaneously united to form an anti-fascist alliance and make unremitting efforts to safeguard world peace. Evil can never triumph over justice, and after years of hard work, the fascist clique was defeated and the world order was re-established. During the years of war, the fascist group and the anti-fascist alliance captured countless soldiers of each other, and until the end of the war there were still a huge number of prisoners.
▲Recent photos of Japan's surrender ceremony
The Soviet Union captured more than 500,000 Japanese invaders on the battlefields of World War II, and these people were eventually brought to Siberia to work as laborers for the Economic Development of the Soviet Union. On August 15, 1945, Japan announced its unconditional surrender to the world, and after all the Japanese troops invading China returned to China, the more than 500,000 prisoners still did not have any phenomenon of fleeing and resisting. Japan's surrender blinded the captives, who were enslaved by the Soviet Union. The extent to which these prisoners lost their morale was appalling, and even when they were escorted to Siberia, they did not resist at all because of the shortage of Soviet transport vehicles and the fact that they had not been disarmed.
▲Old photos of Japanese prisoners who are participating in labor
Generally speaking, after the end of the war, many of these prisoners will not be spared. Captured generals were usually executed first, so as to prevent them from rallying them and engaging in a massive resistance, after which ordinary captives would be killed if the number of captives was too large. Moreover, keeping a large number of captives will directly lead to an increase in material costs, so the execution of captives occurs from time to time. In the anti-Japanese film and television dramas that have emerged in recent years, we often see two or three armed soldiers escorting a large group of prisoners to be shot, so many people will wonder why the prisoners with the dominant population do not rise up to resist. Some veterans tearfully told the real reason.
▲Recent photos of anti-war veterans
First, the captives were lucky. Many of the captives believed that resistance was certain to die, and that there was a high risk that surrender would be exchanged for a life. Therefore, even if these captives are kept in a dark cell, they tell themselves that it is better to choose obedience than to live in prison than to lose their lives. What the prisoners did not know, however, was that the execution of the prisoners needed to be carried out in secret, and it was impossible for the entire prisoner in the prison to know, so many prisoners did not know that they would embark on the road to execution until the moment they were released from the prison.
▲ Japanese troops captured in World War II
Second, as early as the time of capture, the various leadership of the captured side had been executed, and the rest were almost all ordinary soldiers. They didn't have a detailed plan, and immediate tactics to form their own teams to fight back. Not only that, when the prisoners are executed, they do not let all the prisoners in each cell come out, but the prisoners in the prison are rearranged and relocated, and the prisoners are not very familiar with each other. In the end, the defeated captives were disheartened, and there was no pre-war enthusiasm at all, and they lost their sense of struggle.
epilogue
From the era of cold weapons to hot weapons, war has never stopped, and even in today's highly developed society, there are still local wars in the world. The number of people participating in the war and the degree of advanced weapons have always been important factors affecting the success or failure of the war, and the change in form does not mean that the heat of human beings has changed in the war. But in fact, human beings are afraid of war, but they have to break out of war for their own interests, and so on and so on and
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