Tag: WW2
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The Long Peace?
Interesting video/infographic detailing how many people died in World War 2 – very important to revisit this from time to time, lest we forget. I think people feel scared of ISIS, Iraq, Afghanistan, etc – but it is comforting to think these are tiny battles compared to what has gone before. I don’t think we…
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Bye bye empire, bye bye
This one of the songs that has haunted me for very long time, but I didn’t know it was actually about his uncle that died when a WW2 sub sunk …decades ago came up with a fantasy about an escaped submarine deciding to do a Mutiny on the Bounty, a sort of cold-war fantasy fable,…