Understandable, but on the flip side, I've heard that some members of the postwar occupation army were enamoured with the small nimble Japanese vehicles, and brought them back to the States, and we know what that led to. Fact or fiction?
To follow up your post, and at least the other two posters whose grandparents "Were the exact same way but extend to anything Japanese:"
1. I wonder if I was a smart *** even as a kid. I sometimes asked him why he had a Panasonic television set.
He would sit and watch 30, 40, 50-tape $100s of dollars documentaries (video, obviously) about the war, and war footage. Drinking Michelob. Had it delivered to the side of the house. I'll always remember that. Michelob.
He was an awesome guy and could play piano like nobody's business. He was a Victor Borge type of fellow . So great. Told me stories about how he'd play at people's homes, at bars and homes for the GIs traveling through as they advanced on and fought off the Axis powers, namely the Germans in WW2. He was in a pretty early regiment, I forget the exact details or if the US Army even uses the word Regiment but. Wanted to give him his praise, since I brought him up in conversation. R.I.P. Pop-pop. *tear*
2. I think me may have had some Matsushita or Makita drills, don't quote me on that. This part of a much larger business he ran. Maybe bought when they didn't have Craftsman available and just to abuse for fun due to being Japanese, who knows.
3. I would then engage my mind, or at least think, that the Mitsubishi and other companies.. weren't the same companies that produced the engines and heavy artillery for the war effort, particularly since Nihon/Japan (an American word as far as I know. Kanji Japanese but. Okay moving on) was decimated and rebuilt from the ground up, with an interest in producing to the West. Toyota with the Toyopet Crown, a vehicle that just couldn't cut it stateside, then Honda and Datsun.. maybe Subaru as Fuji Heavy Industries, not sure the origins of Kubota or Komatsu but take a look at construction sites.. My father worked for a contractor company called Takanaka. How soon after the war these came over to the West varies but.. are they "the same companies."
I think Matsushita Electric gave us both Panasonic and Technics. I used to love to analyze electronics.
So, could be true.. you would have to ask a vet, they are all different.
My father, a USMC, had a problem with... a specific ethnicity for a long time, and either had to deal with it or hide it when working the trades to give me what was, in hindsight, a pretty good growing up, until the peanut butter hit the fan for non-economic reasons .
As to Russia.. if they are isolated.. well then. What will they do now.. are they really failing in their war advance, a la Hitler and his two front advance in winter that lost him the war? Historians largely agree that he was "winning" the war up to that point.. everyone I talk to says, yeah, maybe, but he would have been overwhelmed by the force of the opposition eventually. Glad we never found out. Coward.
Happy St Patrick's Day, everyone.
Sláinte.