14 Aug 1945 WWII officially ended as Japan surrendered. Despite slogans of peace, freedom and democracy, the US kept Japanese officials in charge of Korea, Britain backed the far-right in Greece and the USSR established dictatorships in East Europe

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Tarmo Amer

@workingclasshistory For once, Brits did the right thing. Greece was two minutes short of becoming another ‘USSR established dictatorship’. So was Austria, but there the situation was defused by diplomacy.

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