Europe Says "40 Years Is Long Enough!" - Gene H Hogberg - June 1985

Gene H Hogberg

Europe has been largely at peace for 40 years. But that peace has been achieved only at tremendous cost: the political division of the Continent. May 8, 1945: the end of the Second World War in Europe and the finish to the Nazi dream to unite Europe by force of arms and usher in a false millennium-a "Thousand Year Reich." Looking back to that fateful day, it is extremely doubtful whether any leader of the victorious Allied powers would have foreseen events 40 years later. Who would have dared speculate that 300,000 American troops would still be stationed on the Continent, facing east. That elements of the British and French forces would still be camped in parts of Germany. And that the Soviet army, facing west, would still be forward-based throughout nearly all the once proud and independent nations of Eastern Europe. - Information Supplied By: Herbert W Armstrong Library