Vyacheslav Molotov, Russian Foreign Minister, signs the non-aggression pact negotiated between Soviet Russia and Germany, 1939.
Vyacheslav Molotov, Russian Foreign Minister, signs the non-aggression pact negotiated between Soviet Russia and Germany, with Joseph Stalin looking on, at the Kremlin in Moscow, August 23, 1939.(Keystone/Getty Images)

This summer, we observe the 80th commemoration of the costly Allied victory over the Axis Powers in World War II. These countries, characterized by evil, racial ideologies that justified grotesque violence, were beaten on the battlefield and accepted “unconditional surrender.” Their elite leadership faced war crimes at the Nuremberg and Tokyo trials, and their inhuman savagery was documented and widely published. To this day, our schools and institutions are committed to depicting the Axis crimes: Never Again!

Yet there remains unfinished business.

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