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Young have lost the link to the understanding we had

Your article (Why young Europeans are turning towards the far right, Spotlight, 8 December) does not consider one very important factor. The generation in question is ignorant of the lessons of the second world war. Anybody born from the 1970s to the 1990s had a good chance of having older relatives who had lived through the conflict and told stories about it. There was an unspoken acceptance that voting for the far right

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