How did the D-day become overrated

[Filuwaúrdjan]

What a load of smug, postmodern rubbish. The anniversary of D-Day started to become a bigger deal once the survivors of it started to die off: there was simply no need before.

[Filuwaúrdjan]

Calling it D-Day was propaganda from the very beginning.

Not at all, it was just military slang for an important date that had either not been formally settled and/or for which the date was top secret and could not be written down. In this case it somehow stuck. The official term for whole campaign was Operation Overlord.

[Filuwaúrdjan]

Yes. I know that in the context of the Cold War, the western media used to highlight the western European front and erase the eastern European front from the collective memory.

In Britain at least that is certainly not true. Everyone knew about Stalingrad (to such an extent that it was - and still is - commonly used for certain allusions), everyone knew about Leningrad, everyone knew who Zhukov was, and everyone knew who Hitler was hiding from when he blew his brains out in a bunker under Berlin. The Eastern Front was extensively covered in the massive 1973 British documentary serial The World at War (which shaped multiple generations understanding of the War) despite there being rather few senior people left to interview.