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Once allies against HItler, the Soviet Union and the United States confront each other at the end of World War II. Looming over the postwar landscape is the awesome, mushroom-shaped cloud of the atomic bomb.
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Why did the Western powers choose to overlook this wartime atrocity?
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A look at an eerie tourist attraction: the shelter designed to preserve representative government, even if there was no one left to represent.
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TIME: Comrades-In-Arms May 21, 1945 PRAVDA: Stalin declares victory over Germany May 10, 1945
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Some historians say Stalin was so pleased by the Yalta
conference that he entertained Roosevelt and Churchill
by repeating the only phrases he knew in English:
"You said it!"; "So what?"; "What the hell goes on round here?"; and "The toilet is over there."
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