It doesn’t matter how long you make them read Lenin and break rocks in the gulag, the second you let them out they’ll see an AI generated meme from a CIA holdout posting from a bunker somewhere and immediately revert to being a burgerbrained fash.

I think we need to just dump them on an island somewhere and put them under continuous naval blockade and internet blackout till they revert to a Hunter gather society.

  • XiaCobolt [she/her]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    5 days ago

    The location was here and some of my details are corroborated.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fushun_War_Criminals_Management_Centre

    I’m trying to find it because it was very interesting and moving but searching for “china” “prison” “war crimes” obviously gets you different western propaganda stuff.

    Edit: this is a really good article and talks about the anti war organisation

    https://sttpml.org/miracle-at-fushun-the-transformation-of-japanese-war-criminals-from-devils-into-humans/

    I think now I might have read the account in a physical book so I’ll think about where it might have been.

    • XiaCobolt [she/her]@hexbear.netEnglish
      28·
      5 days ago

      From the article

      The following is one such example which illustrates how difficult the Fushun project was for the Chinese people to carry out. A young prison guard was shocked when he discovered that a Japanese detainee who had killed his father was among those he was in charge of. After weeks of agony, he told the prison director that he wanted to be transferred. The director said: ‘I know perfectly how you feel… But if you give up on these detainees now and walk out, they will pick up guns and invade China again. This means that there will be many more deaths like your father’s. We must stop these Japanese men from becoming aggressors again. Don’t you think that this is what your father wants most in heaven as well as how you can fulfil your duty as a good son?’ The director’s words made this prison guard realise how important the task of re-educating the Japanese prisoners was for the future of China. Not only did he continue to work at the prison but also worked even harder. One day, his “enemy” suffered an acute appendicitis attack in the middle of the night. The guard carried the sick man on his back to the medical room to save his life