Letter: Will the Russians be coming?
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Your support makes all the difference.AS A Second World War veteran, I have little enthusiasm for 'heritage' replays of one of the nastiest wars in history. But if we must have commemoration, should we not remember that there would have been no D- Day or VE day without the colossal sacrifices made by our ally, the Soviet Union. Without its people's resistance to fascism, thousands more of my generation, probably including myself, would have died in a hopeless final struggle.
For this reason, despite decades of Cold War propaganda, the Russians have never been my enemies. Will Soviet veterans join the commemorations of D-Day in June - and if not, why not?
Terence Boughton
Oxford
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