And in some places WWII continued, after May 1945. There was savage fighting in Greece, Western Ukraine, and Eastern Poland, as well as rival terrors in Italy. (View Post)

I think their line of argument is that they were liberating Eastern Poland and the Baltic States. (View Post)

These days, our leaders would wring their hands over the Japanese and send thousands to their deaths. (View Post)

I only found out recently that the Royal Navy took part in the Battle of Okinawa. In fact, by the end of the war, the British Pacific Fleet was immense. Over a million British, Empire and Commonwealt… (View Post)

A lot of these measures will raise peanuts, but piss people off. (View Post)