Are We *ever* Going To Get Over Wwii ?

[jake-the-peg]

Yet another commemoration - this time 70 years of the Atlantic campaign

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-22434753

Given that WWII lasted about 5 years by the time you've commemorated a VE day anniversary it seems time to start celebrating anothe anniversary of the start of the War!

I hear the cries of 'ingrate' already and patriotic chests puffing up like pidgeons - but WWI was just as formative to those who fought in it and I don't recall continual commemorations of that from my childhood.

Why are we so obsessed with WWII and are we ever going to get over it?

[Zeuhl]

Well put jim

your post of 10.19 gives a clear and objective analysis of the scale of the Soviet war with Germany and its context

As has been stated, the inter-dependencies of contribution by various parties in WW2 are complex and fascinating

[ludwig]

Jake's just wanting to have another moan about what he perceives as the glorification of war Jim. You're not really supposed to spoil it by actually answering the question with a sensible and objective analysis.

Hopefully that'll be it until the poppies go on sale.

[ichkeria]

I'm dying to know what svejk did for the rest of WW1 :-)

[Svejk]

Didn't he become a Soviet Commissar, Ichi? Or maybe that was Hasek.

[ichkeria]

Hasek died with Svejk, alas!

[FredPuli43]

Surely not. The "good soldier" ended up being taken prisoner by his own side, didn't he, but not shot?

[Svejk]

Semi-autobiographical. Seem to remember being disappointed but it was a long time ago. I must read it again.
http://www.faber.co.uk/catalog/the-red-commissar/9780571260492

[ichkeria]

"Surely not. The "good soldier" ended up being taken prisoner by his own side, didn't he, but not shot? "

What I meant was that when Hasek died, so did the character of Svejk, in mid-flow, alas.

As for Hasek being a "red commissar" I think that was an ironic characterisation of himself in one of his stories. He would have been the last person to actually be one (especially as he wasn't Soviet)