# What the Poppy Really Means ![rw-book-cover](https://readwise-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/static/images/article1.be68295a7e40.png) - URL: https://unherd.com/2021/11/what-the-poppy-really-means/ ## Highlights - The settlement imposed on Germany after 1918 was, after all, America’s first go at imposing democracy at gunpoint. - The war precipitated a crisis in institutional Christendom. It spawned the first Communist state. And it shattered confidence in Western civilisation