Who will speak up and celebrate Europe and the world’s progress since 1976?
- Soviet Union declares peace with the West
- End of Cold War with no shot fired
- China not a military threat
- No nuclear weapon used against an enemy
- No wars between major nations at all
- Western Europe at peace continually; no inter-state since end of WWI
- East Germany opens its border
- Students sledgehammer the Berlin Wall
- Iron Curtain vanishes
- Nations of central and Eastern Europe become liberal democracies with hardly a drop of blood being spilled
- Fascism vanishes from Europe – Portugal, Spain and Greece
- Liberal democracies in Taiwan, South Korea and most of South and Central America
- President of Egypt hugs the Prime Minister of Israel in the Knesset
- Jordan makes lasting peace with Israel
- Apartheid dismantled in South Africa
- Nelson Mandela becomes President
- No inter-state war between major developed countries since 1945
- No developed country has expanded their territory since the late 1949s by conquering another country
- No recognised state has gone out of existence through conquest
Annual deaths in battle over the past 60 years have fallen by more than 90%, around half a million a year in the late 1940s to around 30,000 in the early 2000s despite Iraq, Afghanistan, Sudan, etc
Mark Roberts 