Quote Originally Posted by Peter View Post
Really? THis coming from a country whose population, even today, are unable to celebrate a football win without singing songs about German bombers?

Soviet Union deaths from WW2- 20 million plus
British deaths from WW2- circa 450,000

We like to parade ourselves as the sole defenders against Hitler's aggression when most of the war was fought elsewhere at far greater cost to others.

I did accept they could have calmed down earlier but madness? If so, largely justifiable madness.
I think we tend to parade ourselves as the sole defenders against Hitler' aggression because for the crucial year between June 1940 and June 1941 (during which your Russki chums were engaged in a badly misjudged and morally indefensible non-aggression pact with Germany) we and our Commonwealth and Empire were.

Hope this helps.