St George’s Day: The Tragic Irony, Myths and Lies

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Today is St George’s day in England.

Long before Joseph Goebbels and the Bolsheviks gave the term ‘propaganda’ a very bad name, England had great form in this extraordinary pastime.

Central to the selling of the greatness of this small overachieving Northern European country was the creation of all kinds of myths.