Sunday 1 January 2012

1945 - The second war to end all wars

Auschwitz and other camps are found and freed
In '45, while Manila is burned
And then freed. Iwo Jima suicide
And Okinawa, Tokyo firebombed. Learn
The futility of war! Of course, when
The atom bomb is subsequently dropped
It seems world war must never come again
But the States' motive was partly to stop
The Red Army in Asia gobbling up
Korea, China, Japan, since Stalin had
Reneged on Poland at Yalta and yearned
To rule the east by force. Labour come top
And Churchill's out, Attlee in. They divide
Up Germany. The Iron Curtain's formed

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