Today marks the 75th anniversary of V-E Day (Victory in Europe Day), the day Nazi Germany unconditionally surrendered to the Allies, ending the Second World War in Europe and the abomination of Hitler's obscene, genocidal Reich. It would be several more months until Japan surrendered to the Allies, ending the war globally.
Nearly 11 million military men and women were killed during the war in Europe on the Allied side, with many more civilians killed in bombing raids and other military actions taken by the Axis powers. Sadly, the recent rise of fascism and neo-Nazism in Europe as well as the U.S., fronted by "nationalist" so-called alt-Right white supremacist ideology, mocks those that sacrificed their lives to defeat the evil that fascism and Nazism represented.
The world wide COVID-19 pandemic has meant low-key celebrations, where grand ones were planned to commemorate the 75th anniversary, from London to Normandy to Moscow. Kremlin asset Donald "Tovarich" Trump's handler Vladimir Putin had planned a grandiose military march in Red Square that Trump was invited to view from Lenin's tomb in an ultimate act of submission; all that is gone for now.
The lesson in this is that an evil episode in history can repeat itself if enough people allow it to. We can't allow it to repeat, now or ever.
