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From Reich To Red: Why Stalin Still Haunts Us 80 Years After V-E Day

Josef Stalin will go down as one of the most treacherous characters in history.

Brad Schaeffer
From Reich To Red: Why Stalin Still Haunts Us 80 Years After V-E Day
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Earlier this month, we celebrated the 80th anniversary of V-E Day, “Victory in Europe,” which marked the end of the European Theater’s part in the Second World War. It is a date certainly worth commemorating as it closed one of the darkest chapters in European history, which was the rise and fall of Hitler’s Third Reich.

For the countries in what today we call Western Europe that languished for years under the jackboot of Nazi oppression — France, Belgium, Holland, Luxembourg, Denmark, Norway, Greece — the Allied victory truly represented liberation.

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