I would suggest that if you went onto to the street of any US city and asked people, there would be complete ignorance. Yes, students of history would get it, but not the average joe.
“I would suggest that if you went onto to the street of any US city and asked people, there would be complete ignorance. Yes, students of history would get it, but not the average joe.”
Most Americans 50 years ago never learned which nations fought on which side in WWII. Their history classes typically only get to the American Civil War by the end of the semester, but if they are lucky spend a day or two on WWI and WWII along with a smattering of a few other 20th Century subjects. Nowadays the schools are even worse than they were 50 years ago. When they do teach the 20th Century history, they do so through a prism of Communist and leftist indoctrination with false propaganda and false revisionist history. So,, it is no surprise whatsoever that your typical American is ignorant and oblivious to most any kind of history and current events.
Even among students of military history the prolific Soviet disinformation and revisionist history has a tendency to influence Western readers through the sheer repetition of the false information. The role of the Soviet Union in WWII is a key example of this Russian rewriting of history to make itself look more important at the very least if not virtually the sole victor at the very most.