There is something ironic in the fact that on the 80th anniversary of the Liberation of Auschwitz, the results of a new poll reveal that more than half of Gen Z believe life would be better under a dictatorship, and a third would support a military junta (Metro, Tue).
Or the millions of Cambodians murdered by the Khmer Rouge, the hundreds of thousands of Iraqis who died at the hands of Saddam Hussein, the Ugandans massacred by Idi Amin, the untold dead of North Korea, Pinochet’s Chile and the Argentine military dictatorship.
Can they possibly be oblivious to the Stalinist purges in the former USSR, Nazi Germany’s murder of six million Jews (and a further five million political opponents, homosexuals and gypsies), the thousands of Spanish murdered by Franco?
I would suggest that they, and the rest of us, are all living in a kind of land of make believe right now.
Those who dream of living in a dictatorship would soon live – if they survived at all – to regret it.
