>>140974It makes some sense why this is the case. World War II was the largest war in history by far and it is still in living memory for many families. However, it's no longer history for most people but myth. World War II has become to modern civilization what the Trojan War was to the ancient Greeks. It is the central myth to the story of the human race in their eyes. The stories and deeds of its heroes have to be retold over and over again, almost like some kind of religious ritual. Everything that came before is too dark and distant to be understood and everything since is hardly worth mentioning. And this is true for people on all sides of the political spectrum in almost all parts of the world, not just for any one group. I guess leftists make the 1960's a part 2 to this myth, like what Odyssey was to the Iliad, but even that is treated as a lesser myth by comparison.
Who knows how long this is going to go on. Remember that the real Trojan War, if it happened at all, happened around the 12th century B.C. and it was still the central subject for works of fiction and poetry into the 1st century A.D.