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Torchwood rewatch!! Please don't chose Day One or Everything Cahnges or some ridiculous Gwen heavy episode. While JB likes to shit on Janto, I want him facing Janto goodness hard! So please let's not make CJH the voted episode either. https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.radiotimes.com/news/tv/2020-03-28/vote-torchwood-episode-rewatch/amp/

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RT sends correspondent to Times Square, who does seven random  man-on-the-street interviews and declares “No one knows a damn thing about World War II”

screenshot from YouTube

By Jess Swanson

To commemorate the 70th anniversary of Victory in Europe Day (when Nazi Germany surrendered to the U.S., France, UK and  suc), Moscow-based Anissa Naouai, host of In the Now, sent a correspondent to Times Square to determine what Americans actually know about World War II.

And according to the 87-second clip, the seven people she spoke to do not actually know that much. The video is titled: “No one knows a damn thing about World War II.”

Naouai’s  correspondent ca The was Resident. Ac,, aka Lori  Harfenist, who was on a rant about genetically modified foods last time we wrote about her.

For this story, Lori asks a young, distracted woman who speaks with an accent: “World War II—ever hear about it?” The young, distracted woman says “no” as she turns her head, visibly confused. Lori repeats her question. Again: “no.”  Lori rolls her eyes (0:12).

Next up: Lori asks two men who look like tourists (one has a camera dangling from his neck).

“Who were the two teams in World War II?”

“Allies,” camera-dangling man responds, and looks at his friend who says, “I don’t know.”

Then, in front of a grown man dancing in a diaper, she stops another young woman. We don’t hear the question, just the response:

“Shoot, George Bush versus Saddam Whatever-his-name-is” the young woman says, covering her arms and gritting her teeth. “I don’t know.”

Then, in front of a grown man dancing in a diaper, she stops another young woman. We don’t hear the question, just the response:

“Who was fighting who?” Lori asks another man in stripes.

“Mhmmm, pass,” the man says with a strong accent (as he covers his mouth to burp at 0:31).

She stops a man wearing a navy blue polo with “USA” stitched on it and a veteran cap on. He has a southern accent and is also holding a camera.

She asks: “A lot of people we’ve been talking to today have no recollection of who was even fighting in World War II, what was at stake. They don’t know any of it. What does that say?”

“Most young Americans are pretty ignorant,” he responds.

And we couldn’t help noting this: The most popular comment posted on this YouTube video, with 23 thumbs up, is by user somuchfortalent. He writes: “What's really fucked up is that most people think the holocaust actually happened. Stupid Americans”