Britain's Wartime Smokescreen in Times of Crisis: With me on the show this afternoon is Historian and former History teacher Roger Anderson to discuss VE Day; a myth, Roger says, that is being used in the midst of the present COVID-19 crisis to cover over the cracks in the British political structure. As a foundation myth, he says, VE Day and other fictions of Britain winning the Second World War is used to distract British nationalists from the realities of British state and political failure and hep them up on the goof balls British exceptionalism.
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