V-E Day: Sometimes War IS the Answer

I am invariably both amused and infuriated by those idiotic bumper stickers reading, "War is Not the Answer."

Well, sometimes it is: the great revolutions (including our own), the Civil War, and above all, World War II. Without war, no end of slavery, no victory over fascism. Q.E.D.

Here, the classic Soviet patriotic song, "Sacred War":



Here, Winston Churchill congratulates the British people on the victory of freedom: