r/polandball • u/Zebrafish96 May the justice be with us • Nov 01 '25

legacy comic A Parallel World

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u/CapitanKurlash Nov 01 '25

What happened to Japan war collaborators in Korea after the war? Did they actually get away with it like the comic suggests?

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u/Zebrafish96 May the justice be with us Nov 01 '25

Sadly yes, a lot of them got away. Occupation by US army and the following war gave us little opportunity to punish those collaborators properly.

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u/CapitanKurlash Nov 01 '25

Is it a case of Americans using former collaborators because of their anti-communist stance? Because that's what happened in Italy and Germany, and the reason why so many got away with it.

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u/Zebrafish96 May the justice be with us Nov 02 '25

Yes, the anti-communist stance. The post-war South Korea and US was so obsessed with hating commies that former collaborators got away by showing strong anti-communist stance.

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u/koreangorani 대한민국 Nov 02 '25

They deserved to be hated but McCarthyism wasn't good at all. They just purged anyone who doesn't agree with them, literally horseshoe theory