Perspective: Claims designed to weaken international resolve to sanction Russia for invading Ukraine are classic communist propaganda.
Seventy years ago, both powers brought virtually identical charges to the United Nations, and they have been making similar claims on and off ever since. Bogus biowarfare allegations are straight from their Disinformation’s Greatest Hits album.
So Marshall Plan posters and pamphlets highlighted American generosity and preached the value of European unity in the face of Soviet threats. One stunt included tying leaflets articulating these themes to balloons. The winds carried them from west to east, drifting over communist territory. Across the Iron Curtain, however, state-controlled media outlets claimed the balloons carried biological weapons, including beetles that were said to be decimating potato fields.
The fragile peace exploded June 25, 1950, when North Korean troops invaded South Korea, capturing Seoul. The United States assembled an international coalition, under U.N. authority but commanded by U.S. Gen. Douglas MacArthur, to repel the North Korean forces. The campaign came in waves, with varied allegations. Early on, China announced that the United States was secretly running a biowarfare laboratory in Japan, then still under U.S. occupation. According to Chinese media, the American lab was run by the notorious Shiro Ishii, the former head of Japan’s Unit 731, which had conducted gruesome biological experiments on Chinese victims during World War II, killing thousands.
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