The end of World War II in Europe. It became known as Victory in Europe, or VE Day. On this 80th anniversary, there are memorials and ... (SOUNDBITE OF BELLS CHIMING) LAUREN FRAYER, BYLINE ...

From Barnsley to Richmond, Knaresborough to Scarborough, Yorkshire people staged their own tributes to VE Day 80 years on.

Bells ringing for hours yesterday ... in the 1970s and was there for the latter Cold War and there for the fall of the Soviet Union in Eastern Europe, the - effectively, the liberation of his ...

It reinforced the narrative of the Soviet Union as the liberator of Europe from fascism and justified its post-war influence over Eastern Europe ... and the laying of wreaths at war memorials. The day ...

LONDON (AP) — Even if the end of World War II in Europe spawned one of the most joyous days the continent ever lived, Thursday’s 80th anniversary of V-E Day is haunted as much by the specter ...

(AP Photo/Petr David Josek) LONDON (AP) — Even if the end of World War II in Europe spawned one of the most joyous days the continent ever lived, Thursday’s 80th anniversary of V-E Day is ...