Victory

Abstract

Abstract This chapter covers the aftermath of World War II in the Soviet Union and China—known respectively as the Great Patriotic War and the Chinese People’s War of Resistance against Japan—in 1945 and the decisions the respective ruling regimes made with regard to commemorating the victory and the wider history of the war. It examines the early years of the Chinese Communist Party’s rule in China under Mao Zedong and the postwar and early Cold War years in the Soviet Union under Joseph Stalin. This chapter covers the period 1945–1950.