In Canada, it is seen to some degree as a war where Canada became it’s own independent country, not merely an administrative division of the British Empire that followed where London led and where many other countries became familiar with Canada as separate from the British, like how the Germans were absolutely terrified of any time when our soldiers were doing anything near them (not without reason, many Canadian units illegally massacred prisoners). Except of course Quebec, who were telling the prime minister: “Tu peux va au l’inferno, s’il tu plait.”

In the English speaking world too, it is getting more attention for what happened not merely a meme in NE France and Belgium in trenches as a pointless slaughter done by stupid generals who bought their commissions but also us (perfidiously) carving up Iraq and Syria and what happened between Turkish people and the Rhomaiki.

I imagine that in a good chunk of the former Warsaw Pact, countries are delving into their archives and presenting new views differing from what the pre-1989 version said.

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