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Hello and welcome to The Intelligence from The Economist.
I'm your host, Jason Palmer.
Every weekday we provide a fresh perspective on the events shaping your world.
Today we're dedicating a special episode to Victory in Europe, or VE Day.
It's been 80 years since the formal end of war in Europe, even if war against Japan raged on.
Hitler was dead, the Nazis had surrendered, and the Allied powers,
including America and the Soviet Union, had reason to celebrate.
We're taking all this time to talk about it, not because 80 is a nice round number.
This decadal anniversary is different from the last, from all that came before it.
Which countries are Allied now?
Who promises to keep the peace in Europe and the world?
What's left of the worldview that survived for so many of those 80 years?
We'll be looking back at how The Economist reported the end of the war at the time,
at what European defense looks like now, and how Britain celebrates the anniversary today.