At 80 years of the Victory over Fascism

Marshal Wilhelm Keitel, Commander-in-Chief of the German Army, dressed for the last time in his formal dress uniform, was led on May 9, 1945, to sign the Act of Unconditional Surrender of the Nazi land, sea and air forces in the main hall of a former officers' casino in Karlshorsten, Berlin, before high-ranking Allied military and political leaders.

The ceremony was brief and after signing his name, Keitel made a military salute to the representatives of the Soviet, French, British and American command who did not reciprocate and he was immediately taken out of the hall by his escorts, while the toasts began among those present for the victory over fascism and the end of World War II.

Six years earlier, when everything seemed favorable to the proclaimed Nazi millennium, on September 1, 1939, Adolf Hitler's army attacked Poland in a surprising and unjustified manner, while the United Kingdom and France, allies of the invaded nation, a few hours later declared war on Germany.
The USSR had signed a non-aggression treaty with Germany in August 1939, trying to gain time in building up its war power to face a fascist aggression.

They considered a fascist attack a matter of time, since the United Kingdom and France rejected or responded evasively to all the Kremlin's proposals to create a common alliance to stop Hitler's aggression in Europe, according to the Soviet authorities of the time.

It is also explained by official statements of the USSR that when Germany attacked Poland, with which that great country also had borders, the Red Army decided to invade that nation with the purpose of preventing German troops occupying the eastern Polish region from approaching its borders.

Thus, that territory remained out of the conflict until June 22, 1941, the date on which the Germans, also in another surprise attack, began the invasion along its entire western border from the Baltic Sea to the north and the Black Sea to the south, with nearly five million men, more than three thousand tanks and thousands of airplanes on a front of about five thousand kilometers.

Thus began for the Soviet people The Great Patriotic War, in which it seemed at first impossible to overcome the torrent of invading tanks and soldiers in their advance towards Moscow. While on the front against the United Kingdom and France in the latter country, no major strategic operations were carried out, so it was called The Strange War.

The first great defensive battle won by the Soviets was fought less than 30 kilometers away in the plains near Moscow, which was attacked by the group of German armies composed of two million uniformed men decimated by about half a million and the destruction of more than two thousand tanks, cannons and aircraft, which forced the aggressor to retreat hundreds of kilometers from the Soviet capital.

Then came the victories of Stalingrad in 1943, of Kursk in 1943, which laid the foundations for the expulsion of the invaders from the whole country at the end of 1944; and the beginning of the campaign for the Liberation of Poland, Romania, Hungary, Austria, Bulgaria and Yugoslavia together with thousands of guerrillas who had already defeated a good part of the fascist occupiers and Czechoslovakia.
The Red Army entered German territory and took Berlin in May 1945 to raise the red flag over the Reichtag, a victory that was achieved at the cost of more than 20 million lives and the destruction of more than a third of the national wealth of the Soviet Union.

It seemed 80 years ago, in 1945, with the surrender of Germany in May and of the Japanese Empire in August, that the world was finally entering a new era of peace under the United Nations system to eradicate wars of conquest forever, but the reality was very different.

Hoy se pueden comprobar por documentos desclasificados de Estados Unidos que el Pentágono elaboró la Operación Dropshot, que tuvo varias fechas para iniciar un ataque sorpresivo al estilo nazi a su antiguo aliado con 133 bombas atómicas que lanzarían bombarderos estratégicos contra 70 ciudades soviéticas, incluida Moscú y capitales de Europa del Este en un período de 30 días para liquidar el socialismo de la faz de la tierra junto con media Europa y Asia.

But apparently the Soviets' acquisition of the atomic weapon in 1949 persuaded the warmer minds of the North that such aggression would be met with a terrible response.

In its place would begin more than half a century of Cold War and other not-so-cold imperialist aggressions, in which U.S. methods would be used as a means of warfare.

In its place would come more than half a century of Cold War and other not so cold imperialist aggressions, in which US methods are very reminiscent of those of the Nazis represented by Marshal Keitel, who paid for his crimes by hanging for his part in planning and carrying out the surprise attack on the USSR and other crimes against humanity at the Nuremberg Trial in 1946.