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Stalin and the War on Terror
More than 20 million Soviets give their lives in the fight against the Nazis. The Russian winter deals a fatal blow to Hitler's designs on the east. Stalin disinherits his son publicly because he was not good enough for him. Yakov eventually threw himself on the electrified barbed wire and died. On July 17th, 1945, in the German city of Potsdam near Berlin, the victorious allies gather to draw a line on six long years of bloody conflict.