"It was back in nineteen forty-two"

This line really struck me the other day as I heard this while really listening for the first time (y'know how you kinda gloss over the familiar sometimes?). Really shows Seeger's Stalinist leanings -- though even that doesn't really explain why the anti WWII sentiment. Everyone my age and younger, I beleive, is under the impression that this was an anti-VietNam song. Clearly it is not.