Western Europe is fed on a diet of propaganda

Russia suffered a tremendous human toll along with the worst kind of destruction during the Second World War and thanks to films and history text books, everyone in the country understands how disastrous a war can actually be. A large problem in Western Europe is the fact that history books have not been fair to the Soviet Union and its sacrifices in the liberation of Europe from Nazi Germany. The popular belief is that the Americans came in and rescued the continent. Such simplistic beliefs are the main justification for a lot of these European countries being pro-American at any cost. Although America lost a lot of lives in the Second World War, there was no fighting in the continental United States. It was Europe that bore most of the brutalities of the war.