They wouldn't have much of a chance without the economic support of the USA with programs like the Marshall plan

Europeans were shattered from the war

It's only know that the boomer generation are starting to die of that rightly or wrongly and we are not

Trapped in The legacy of that war

I am from the UK and it feels like world War 2 has soaked up too much of British national Identity

Which is understandable if you lived through it or where Sons are daughters who those who lived through it