While some of the last battles of WWII were being fought, U.S.
President Franklin Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston
Churchill, and Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin--the so-called "Big
Three"--met from February 4-11, 1945, in the Crimean resort town of
Yalta. Over eight days of bargaining, bombast, and intermittent
bonhomie, while Soviet soldiers and NKVD men patrolled the grounds
of the three palaces occupied by their delegations, they decided,
among other things, on the endgame of the war against Nazi Germany
and how a defeated and occupied Germany should be governed, on the
constitution of the nascent United Nations, on the price of Soviet
entry into the war against Japan, on the new borders of Poland, and
on spheres of influence elsewhere in Eastern Europe, the Balkans,
and Greece. With the deep insight of a skilled historian, drawing
on the memorable accounts of those who were there--from the leaders
and high level advisors such as Averell Harriman, Anthony Eden, and
Andrei Gromyko, to Churchill's clear-eyed secretary Marian Holmes
and FDR's insightful daughter Anna Boettiger--Diana Preston has, on
the 75th anniversary of this historic event, crafted a masterful
and vivid chronicle of the conference that created the post-war
world, out of which came decisions that still resonate loudly
today. Ever since, who "won" Yalta has been debated. Three months
after the conference, Roosevelt was dead, and right after Germany's
surrender, Churchill wrote to the new president, Harry Truman, of
"an iron curtain" that was now "drawn upon [the Soviets'] front."
Knowing his troops controlled eastern Europe, Stalin's judgment in
April 1945 thus speaks volumes: "Whoever occupies a territory also
imposes on it his own social system."
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