03-26-2020, 04:30 AM
I would say that the Great Depression and World War II was undeniably a Crisis Era for Britain. Like other countries in Europe aside from the Soviet Union, Britain had its own problems with domestic fascists, and unlike many other European countries. democracy prevailed. Also there was the nasty death struggle with the Third Reich, which is about as much a Crisis as there could be.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.