Just a note in memory of all the victims of World War II; we must never forget, nor allow the terrible truth behind the battles to be re-written for modern political expediency, or history may well repeat itself. And a toast to all the heroes who helped defeat the Nazis and their Axis allies: to the soldiers and the sailors and the airmen; to the resistance fighters and the intelligence agents; to the underground networks who helped people to freedom; to the civilians who kept the supplies flowing and the farms growing, fought the fires and cleared the rubble, tended the injured and buried the dead. Here's to all of you, and especially to those whose roles are being downgraded or even forgotten in the name of politics. A toast to you, and as for those whose roles are being sanitised and concealed - Hitler's heirs will not succeed. The guilty will never be washed clean of their guilt, and the true heroes will not be smeared with shame.
"The world has never seen greater devotion, determination and self-sacrifice than have been displayed by the Russian people... With a nation that in saving itself is thereby helping to save all the world from the Nazi menace, this country of ours should always be glad to be a good neighbor and a sincere friend..." US President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, July 28th, 1943
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