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March 02, 2007

Aftermath of War

The aftermath of war is always messy and often bloody. In the six months ofter the liberation of Paris in 1944, the French killed upward of ten thousand accused collaborators. A dozen years after the fall of communism, electricity and water sputter unreliably in much of the former Soviet Union. A Swedish journalist who visited Germany one and a half years after the end of World War II observed that:

The electricity is still out. People are bitter, disillussioned and hopeless. They express fury at the Allies, especially the English, whom they believe to be sabotoging renewal. Many argue that things are worse than under the old dictatorship. On the streets, foreign correspondents interview barefoot orphans, who clamour for an American visa. Above all, there looms the profound hypocrisy of the occupation itself, and its attempt to eradicate militarism by means of a military regime.

An End to Evil by David Frum & Richard Perle

Posted by Robert J. Avrech at March 2, 2007 10:45 AM

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