• Ho_Chi_Chungus [she/her]@hexbear.net
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    Same thing with the “bystander effect” as well which was just the New York Times running cover for the police making the murder of Kitty Genovese even worse for her friends

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        My understanding was that it had to do not so much with defection as much as POWs being anti-war and unwilling to fight when they were returned due to DPRK/PRC propaganda. Of course, the propaganda was just a tour of Pyongyang and other firsthand witness of the destruction their side caused.

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          iirc many of the returning veterans were also confessing or trying to blow the whistle on American use of biological warfare