It is ironic and tragic that those people, so young and so brave, who fought for a new, liberated Europe, free from bloody conflict and united in a common good, are being celebrated by some European politicians (including, shamefully, those in my country which remained a beacon of hope throughout the war) who want the break-up of this new Europe so many died for and which has (so far) ensured that re-incarnations of toothbrush-moustached corporals and swaggering predappian baldies, even in the figures of those junk-shop imitations, farago and boojo, will never again soil our beautiful and pleasant lands.
