Not exact matches
When the news broke the next day, soldiers and civilians around the
world heralded
Victory in Europe Day — the
Soviet Union would mark
Victory Day on May 9 — exuberant about the end of nearly six years of war that had destroyed much of Europe.
The resultant maelstrom of violence massively weakened the USSR rather than strengthening it, but the ultimate
victory of
Soviet forces
in World War II appeared to justify the Terror.
America's
victory in the Cold War benefitted the whole
world, including, above all, the captive peoples of the
Soviet Bloc.
Victory Day celebrates the capitulation of Nazi Germany to the
Soviet Union at the end of
World War II
in 1945.