On the 70th anniversary of Victory in Europe day, many Eastern Europeans boycotted celebrations in Moscow, marking the day with a sombre ceremony in Gdansk, Poland instead.

It is a reminder that although the anti-Communists won the Cold War they did not win the peace. Indeed, the great conundrum of the culture wars is how the communist sympathisers, who comprehensively lost the ideological, economic and moral battles of the Cold War, have not only won the culture wars but won control of our cultural citadels – our universities, our arts funding bodies, our public broadcasters.