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Propaganda about “freedom” proves to be thin gruel.
In the lead-up to Britain’s Remembrance Day on November 11, a 100-year-old British veteran of the Second World War, Alec Penstone, provoked significant discussion after he told the popular news program Good Morning Britain that the sacrifice of his comrades-in-arms “wasn’t worth the result.” While the controversy itself was somewhat predictable due to Britain’s public cult surrounding its participation in the Second World War, Penstone’s comments are not out of the ordinary for British veterans of the conflict.
A point that has yet to be raised is the juxtaposition of the views of British veterans of the Second World War with Russian veterans of the conflict. Penstone’s attitudes towards the sacrifices made in the conflict would be alien to Russian public discourse.
Why is this so? If anything, one would expect the opposite; the British government of the time was infinitely preferable to that of the Soviet Union. The fact of the matter is that the average soldier of the Red Army did not fight for the ideological abstractions
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