[Lucius Cornelius Sulla]

Why 1940's? What about everything else before that?

Because anyone who talks about some debt being due from this unpleasant incident need go no further than that to demonstrate that any 'bill' has been paid in full. If that is not enough for them, the full story would not change them either.

[CommiesOut]

"It was appropriate to burn the New Testament in private,"

Sounds like a new sort of good soldiers.
Private BurnSvejk, LOL!