Why does the UK fetishize its WW2 victory with seeming endless memorialising and self valorisation? The US bailed Britain out of two world wars but the second is surrounded in folklore chiefly due to the cult of Churchill the arch mythologiser with extraordinary albeit dubious skills of oratory and self promotion.
Promptly after the war he was rejected by the fickle electorate in favour of the Labour party who promised bread and circuses and ushered in an English socialism not dissimilar in essentials to the German Socialism it had sacrificed blood and treasure to defeating the last six years leading to the welfare state and making British subjects less free than they were before the war.
Communism was the true victor of WW2 and the Soviets were Western allies so it was an inglorious pyrrhic victory for Britain which has been glossed over with cloying sentiment and propaganda to the present day.
Britain was bankrupt after the war languishing years in poverty, emiseration and subsistence rationing and got a humiliating bailout/loan from the US which was unconstitutional foolish and ill advised as it was promptly squandered and frittered away on the Welfare State by the Labour government.
Hitler planned a European Union which was enacted by his victors rendering WW2 futile on its own terms. Claims that the EU was a bulwark against the risk of future Fascism has been embarrassingly refuted by the emergence of far Right movements across the EU.
Abstracting the Churchill cult of personality and the self congratulation WW2 achieved little and cost much for the victors.
The nauseating orgy of anniversary marking that keeps on being played out should actually be banned as it is is criminal waste of taxpayers money and a way of distracting from the statism and oppressive collectivism that the UK polity is now characterized by and merely allows our political pygmies to channel Churchill in a hopeless attempt to bask in distant glories and the fading glow of his questionable triumphs and larger than life character.
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