Seventy years ago today, on Sept. 2, 1945, representatives from the Allied forces stood in solemn ceremony on the deck of the majestic USS Missouri, moored in Tokyo Bay, to accept Japan's surrender after a long, bitter war in Asia and the Pacific. The Japanese, stiff and formal, rendered courtesies and in a matter of minutes World War II was signed away into history. How could the world recover from a remorseless conflict in which an estimated 60 million souls had perished, of which more than 25 million were Soviet?
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