World War II: After the War

The Atlantic ^ | 10/30/2011 | Alan Taylor

[Chode]

At the end of World War II, huge swaths of Europe and Asia had been reduced to ruins. Borders were redrawn and homecomings, expulsions, and burials were under way. But the massive efforts to rebuild had just begun. When the war began in the late 1930s, the world's population was approximately 2 billion. In less than a decade, the war between the Axis the Allied powers had resulted in 80 million deaths -- killing off about 4 percent of the whole world. Allied forces now became occupiers, taking control of Germany, Japan, and much of the territory they had formerly ruled. 20-part retrospective of World War II) [45 photos]

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[Chode]

ping...

[warchild9]

And...lo! It provided a second career for Warchild9!

/and a passion for these last forty years

[dfwgator]

I wonder how many of those “victorious” Soviet soldiers who returned to Moscow, ultimately wound up in Siberia?

[Drew68]

bfl

[Chode]

my guess is, a LOT!!! once they saw the west, even war-torn as it was, they knew the communists were screwing them

[Chode]

i hear ya

[Red_Devil 232]

Great Photos! Number 28 is telling because the current young Kim Jung Un of N. Korea looks a lot like his grandfather.

 

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks Chode.

Borders were redrawn and homecomings, expulsions, and burials were under way.

And the continued mass-murders by the Soviet Union, Maoist "revolutionaries", and the various client "insurgencies". The USSR moved Poland west, into Germany, and annexed eastern Poland, and imposed and maintained illegal puppet regimes in occupied eastern Europe and the Baltic states.

[Chode]

yup, and as fat as he is, he never saw a hard day in his life either...