British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt, and Soviet leader Josef Stalin at the Yalta Conference, Feb. 9, 1945. Credit: UK National Archives Eight decadess ago, on ...
As the United States dropped its atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945, 1.6 million Soviet troops launched a surprise attack on the Japanese army occupying eastern Asia. Within days, ...
Soviet Foreign Minister Alexander Bessmertnykh said Saturday that Moscow seeks "a realistic solution" to a dispute over a Pacific island group that has marred relations between Moscow and Tokyo since ...
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The Soviet storm — when Stalin invaded Japan
Days after Hiroshima, Stalin declared war on Japan. In Manchuria, the Red Army unleashed one of the fastest offensives in history, annihilating Japan’s Kwantung Army. This episode follows the Soviet ...
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