Taking a chance with Peace

AS the Allies advanced towards Berlin after D-Day 1944, grateful populations showered victorious troops with flowers, alcohol, gifts and other favours as peace of sorts arrived.

The notable exceptions were those countries “liberated” from Nazi rule by Stalin’s Russians, with many people fearful they would be worse than those they replaced.

It was also when a nascent United Nations envisaged an international role, “peace keeping”, although “peace” was often an illusory concept.

Australia has contributed to multiple forms of “peace keeping” from Indonesia in 1947 to the present, participating in the full gambit of those operations, including all-out war in Korea.

 

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