(via Wikimedia Commons)īy February 1945, the Allies were winning the war and Roosevelt looked to lock in victory and set to order a post-war world. What happened at Yalta? What lessons does it hold for us today? (“Roosevelt: Soldier of Freedom,” James MacGregor Burns, page 572.) “I know, Bill, but it is the best I can do for Poland at this time,” Franklin Roosevelt. Without ever technically breaking it,” Admiral William Leahy, Chief of Staff to Partisanship colored much of that, but Roosevelt himselfĪnd his chief of staff expressed unease about what they had just signed up toĮlastic that the Russians can stretch it all the way from Yalta to Washington Republicans attacked Roosevelt’s conduct at Yalta as the product of naivetéĪbout Stalin or worse. Had reservations about Yalta nearly from the beginning. “second Yalta” in which Washington and Moscow make deals at their expense. Politics they (and Ukrainians) fear the United States will be tempted by a United States’ abandonment of its core values on the altar of Great Power Others in Central Europe, Yalta means a betrayal of their countries and the Power comity and accommodation the regime of Russian President Vladimir Putinįloated the idea of another Yalta Conference.
Russians, through the Cold War and today, Yalta symbolizes a pinnacle of great (the conference and not the place) evokes powerful emotions to this day. But within months, the GrandĪlliance against Nazi Germany was breaking and the Iron Curtain descending onĮurope’s eastern third, where it lasted for forty-five years. Of World War Two and forge a post-war settlement. Yalta resort in then-Soviet Crimea to finalize their strategy for the remainder Prime Minister Winston Churchill, and Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin met at the Years ago, on February 4-11, 1945, US President Franklin Roosevelt, British
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