Posts Tagged ‘Soviet Union’
History of VE-Day: End of WWII in Europe 78 Years Ago
HISTORY OF VE-DAY Seventy-eight years ago today, World War II ended in Europe with the acceptance by the Allies of unconditional surrender from Germany on VE-Day. Or did it? May 7, 1945, VE-Day Adolf Hitler had committed suicide in his Berlin bunker a week earlier, on April 30, 1945, as I describe in…
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HISTORY OF UKRAINE: WHAT YOU WANT TO KNOW, part 2 We have looked at the recent history of Ukraine in our first article; now we turn to these questions: What is the history of Ukraine over the last two centuries that got us here? What has been Ukraine’s relationship to other great powers…
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