Igor Kurchatov was summoned to Moscow by Stalin and ordered in an evening meeting to spare no expense in developing a nuclear weapon.
The ironic is so thick it's astounding. The Soviet Union's anti intellectual campaign had resulting in wholesale murder of engineers and scientists early on, and now the country was depending upon them.1
Of course, the Soviets had penetrated the U.S. nuclear effort, which was quite a help. Indeed, western scientist of all types, cooperative and captive, would be a boon to Soviet post war efforts on all sorts of weapons.
The United Mine Workers rejoined the American Federation of Labor.
Czechs began the expulsion of Germans from Sudetenland.
Sweden began the deportation of Baltic refugees to the USSR.
MacArthur recommended that Hirohito not be put on trial for war crimes.
Allied forces returned control of the Dutch East Indies to the Netherlands.
A manhunt was on near Sheridan.
Footnotes:
1. It is of course worth noting that the U.S., currently in the hands of the GOP, is itself engaged in an outright denial of science and engineering. Americans can almost take hope in the fact that the USSR, in spite of having murdered intellectuals and scientist, was able to make up the deficit and produce an atomic bomb in short order, suggesting that the current anti science and anti intellectual atmosphere of the GOP lead government migh talso be overcome.
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