Despite the spectrum of a judgment of the American security guarantee in Europe or a cease-fire negotiated under Moscow conditions in Ukraine, war remains a case of the past in the United Kingdom. The British have a passion for their glorious military history and a deep respect for their army. But for the time being, the risk of direct conflict is perceived as very distant, and the spirits are not conditioned by such a possibility.
On this weekend at the end of March, visitors flock to Imperial War Museum (IWM) in the heart of London. In the museum shop, we can offer ourselves, printed on T-shirts, Spitfire, these valiant fighter planes that resisted the Luftwaffe during the Battle of England, or propaganda posters intended to maintain the morale of the British under the bombs, including the famous “Keep Calm and Carry on” (“Stay calm and continue”).
On the floors, many objects retrace life during the Blitz, the German bombings of London, Liverpool or Coventry between the fall of 1940 and the mid-1941, as well as a temporary exhibition exploring the state of mind of the British during the last conflicts in which the country took part. The pacifism of the World War World War, the traumas of men returned from the front, the strangeness of the War of the Malouines (1982) or the massive opposition, in 2003, in 2003, to the commitment of Prime Minister George W. Bush in the war in Iraq in the Iraq war in the Iraq war.
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Source: Lemonde