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"After a fierce and costly battle, Berlin fell to Soviet forces on May 8, 1945, after Allied and Soviet troops had met on the Elbe River to shake hands and congratulate each other on a hard won impending victory. Although the war in Europe was over, it would take several more.. 
...months of hard fighting and substantial losses for Allied forces to defeat the Japanese in September 1945. The alliance between the United States and the Soviet Union during World War II developed out of necessity, and out of a shared realization that each country needed...
..the other to defeat one of the most dangerous and destructive forces of the twentieth century. Ideological differences were subordinated, albeit temporarily, to the common goal of defeating fascism. The Soviets had suffered tremendous human and material losses during the war...
Approximately 20 million people were killed, thousands of villages, towns, and cities were destroyed, and the Soviet Union’s economic infrastructure was devastated. Despite the subsequent postwar controversies and the beginning of the Cold War, nothing can diminish the importance
of the wartime cooperation between the United States and the Soviet Union. (Office of the Historian, Bureau of Public Affairs, U.S. Department of State). Happy Victory Day, Allies!
