ssors, shatter their mad plans and achieve a sweeping victory. The chief result of the war was the total rout of the fascist bloc. The first to be defeated was fascist Italy. Then Finland, Rumania, Bulgaria and Hungary, dragged into the fascist bloc by their rulers, were forced to quit the war. On the night of May 9, 1945 nazi Germany's armed forces signed the act of unconditional surrender. In a short time the capitulation of militarist Japan followed.
             In the Second World War not only the armed forces of the fascist-bloc member countries were defeated. Fascism's state-political system as a form of power of monopoly capital's most reactionary circles was smashed too. The ideology of fascism and militarism collapsed. The chief culprits who unleashed the war met with just retribution. Expressing the will of the peoples the Nuremberg and Tokyo international tribunals sentenced them to death.
             The Soviet Union bore the brunt of the battle against a ruthless and powerful enemy. In the historic battles fought at Moscow, Leningrad, Stalingrad, at the K
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