The UK lost WWII and were then rescued by the United States, its Imperial troops and most importantly the Soviet Union.
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That did not stop them from sharing in the bounty.Gramsci wrote: Fri Sep 27, 2024 1:32 pmThe UK lost WWII and were then rescued by the United States, its Imperial troops and most importantly the Soviet Union.
More Yugoslavs died in WWII than the Brits, who lost around 370,000 people. The Soviets lost 20 million.
Sorry to burst the national myth but the UK suffered pretty much the least out of almost every other combatant.
The bounty? Post-war Britain was in a budget crisis, and shedding imperial holdings as a result - they slashed military expenditures and deficit-spent in order to create a necessary welfare state for post-war rebuilding. US aid was enormous.zorg wrote: Fri Sep 27, 2024 2:13 pmThat did not stop them from sharing in the bounty.Gramsci wrote: Fri Sep 27, 2024 1:32 pmThe UK lost WWII and were then rescued by the United States, its Imperial troops and most importantly the Soviet Union.
More Yugoslavs died in WWII than the Brits, who lost around 370,000 people. The Soviets lost 20 million.
Sorry to burst the national myth but the UK suffered pretty much the least out of almost every other combatant.
I don't know where you get this idea that Britain was in a healthy financial state back then.zorg wrote: Fri Sep 27, 2024 11:34 am The UK won WWII. It was riding high on a combination of public euphoria, German restitution payments, plundered German patents, and various other spoils of war. It wasn't some kind of miraculous economic formula but rather the correct bet paying out as expected.
29th December 2006
Britain will today make the final payment on a multi-billion-dollar loan it took out in 1945 to refinance the country in the wake of the Second World War.
In a transaction that will draw the curtain on the devastating economic consequences of the bloodiest conflict in modern history, the Treasury will transfer £43m to the US and £12m to Canada.
The original loan of $4.34bn - equivalent to £27bn today - was made to avert Britain from bankruptcy at the end of the war rather than to finance the combat itself.
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Curry Pervert wrote: Fri Sep 27, 2024 7:43 pmI don't know where you get this idea that Britain was in a healthy financial state back then.zorg wrote: Fri Sep 27, 2024 11:34 am The UK won WWII. It was riding high on a combination of public euphoria, German restitution payments, plundered German patents, and various other spoils of war. It wasn't some kind of miraculous economic formula but rather the correct bet paying out as expected.
Britain pays off final instalment of US loan - after 61 years.
29th December 2006
Britain will today make the final payment on a multi-billion-dollar loan it took out in 1945 to refinance the country in the wake of the Second World War.
In a transaction that will draw the curtain on the devastating economic consequences of the bloodiest conflict in modern history, the Treasury will transfer £43m to the US and £12m to Canada.
The original loan of $4.34bn - equivalent to £27bn today - was made to avert Britain from bankruptcy at the end of the war rather than to finance the combat itself.
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bush was a puppet. 4
in 20 years there will be an obama elementary school in every major city. 6
trump makes me want to sin. 0
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clocker bob may 30, 2006 wrote:I think the possibility of interbreeding between an earthly species and an extraterrestrial species is as believable as any other explanation for the existence of George W. Bush.
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