Canada looks again to Europe as world marks 80 years since end of Second World War

DECRYPTAGE - The two great victors of the conflict have built around their role a legend that continues to influence their policies.

Some photographs from the end of World War II are recorded in collective memory. A selection of lesser-known ones is on display in front of the Museum of Recent and Contemporary History.

This year, the publicist Paul Lendvai spoke as a witness, condemning the "unbridled hate campaign" against Israel "under the guise of an anti-imperialist, anti-Zionist, leftist ideology.

Eighty years on, ‘never again’ is sounding hollow

As the shadows of conflicts darken different parts of the world, there is no room for complacency as global events impact relations between once allies in the Second World War

Canada looks back to Europe as world marks 80 years since end of Second World War

After the Second World War came to a close, Canada pulled itself away from Great Britain and planted itself firmly within a North American political and economic compact that generated prosperity for much of the western world for decades.

Eighty years after the end of the Second World War, the fear of the return of a world conflict is in every head on the European continent, as is attested by the polls. To the point that the United Kingdom has planned a very precise plan in case of an attack from a "hostile state" while the European Union recommends that every citizen prepare a survival kit.