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NEW YORK - On May 8, 1945, when World War II in Europe officially ended, much of the world lay in ruins.

No doubt, millions of people at the end of the war were too hungry and exhausted to do anything much beyond staying alive.

That is why the war's great hero, Winston Churchill, was voted out of office in the summer of 1945, even before Japan surrendered.

This dream quickly faded when the Cold War divided the world into two hostile blocs.

But in some ways the 1945 consensus, in the West, was strengthened by Cold War politics.

And the post-war social-democratic welfare state is being eroded more and more every day.

In 1989, it looked as if the dark legacy of World War II, the enslavement of Eastern Europe, was finally over.

Neoliberalism filled the vacuum, creating vast wealth for some people, but at the expense of the ideal of equality that had emerged from World War II.

But was it really a war that started on September 11, 2001?

With his Churchillian prose and almost Shakespearean cadences, his mellifluous phrases and sonorous voice carried for decades a message of hope from a people that could have lost all hope and trust in humanity after the horrors of World War II.

Together with Golda Meir and Moshe Dayan he had to leave government in 1974 in the wake of the Yom Kippur War.

In this way we can break free of the institutionalised tug of war that has characterised EU relations.

The advanced countries might mean Bangladesh and the disappearing island states no harm, but no war could be more devastating.

When I was seven years old, in 1960, my grandmother Angelica opened my eyes to the meaning of 8 May 1945, the day when Nazi Germany surrendered and World War II ended in Europe.

This dream quickly faded when the Cold War divided the world into two hostile blocs. But in some ways the 1945 consensus, in the West, was strengthened by Cold War politics.

The old Cold War world order was based on the nuclear arms race between the two superpowers, the United States and Soviet Union.

The Bush administration conspired to lead Americans and others into an illegal war, using fabricated evidence to do so.

During the heyday of Irish terrorism in the UK, successive British governments went out of their way not to concede to the IRA the notion that a war was being waged.

But, at least until now, the world has paid almost no attention to war crimes and crimes against humanity comparable in their savagery to any of these: the killing fields of Sri Lanka in 2009.