one of the things that radicalized the titular Young Officers was seeing the living conditions of their enlisted men. Many had never been to the places that their soldiers actually lived in and lacked familiarity with what was happening
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it is really one of the great historical ironies, that for all of the romanticization of Feb 26, 1936 and the role sympathy for it played in accelerating Japan's race to the bottom, it took Japan's actual *defeat* in World War II for some kind of authority to finally respond to revolt's key demand
