Talk:Star Wars: The Force Awakens/@comment-26711120-20140611013504/@comment-1672596-20140618232757

George Lucas stated it in an interview at one point, maybe in the director's commentary for either Episode V or Episode VI on the DVD. I do know that Bill Whittle pointed this out in his "Han Shot First" episode of Afterburner, and also cited the resulting implication that the Galactic Empire was America as a result, which was where I first learned of this.