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Yalta Conference
The Yalta Conference meeting took place at Yalta, Crimea, USSR - during the week of 4th to the 11th of February 1945 - between the British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, the U.S. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, and the Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin.
Apart from demanding Germany's unconditional surrender - including plans for dividing Germany into four zones of occupation (American, British, French, and Soviet) - agreement was also reached on reorganizing the Polish Lublin government (supported by Stalin) - "on a broader democratic basis" - that would include members of Poland's London government-in-exile, which the Western Allies had supported.
The conferees decided to ask China and France to join them in sponsoring the founding conference of the United Nations - to be convened in San Francisco on Apr. 25, 1945 where agreement was reached on using - the veto system of voting in the projected Security Council. India was not invited to the party which has been a source of underlying resentment to this day.
Future meetings of the foreign ministers of the "Big Three" were planned.
The USSR secretly agreed to enter the war against Japan within three months of Germany's surrender and was promised S Sakhalin, the Kuril Islands, and an occupation zone in Korea. The secret agreement respecting the disposal of Japan's holdings also provided that the port of Dalian (Dairen) should be internationalized, that Port Arthur should be restored to its status before the 1904-5 Russo-Japanese War as a Russian naval base,
Apart from demanding Germany's unconditional surrender - including plans for dividing Germany into four zones of occupation (American, British, French, and Soviet) - agreement was also reached on reorganizing the Polish Lublin government (supported by Stalin) - "on a broader democratic basis" - that would include members of Poland's London government-in-exile, which the Western Allies had supported.
Yalta Conference
The conferees decided to ask China and France to join them in sponsoring the founding conference of the United Nations - to be convened in San Francisco on Apr. 25, 1945 where agreement was reached on using - the veto system of voting in the projected Security Council. India was not invited to the party which has been a source of underlying resentment to this day.
Future meetings of the foreign ministers of the "Big Three" were planned.
The USSR secretly agreed to enter the war against Japan within three months of Germany's surrender and was promised S Sakhalin, the Kuril Islands, and an occupation zone in Korea. The secret agreement respecting the disposal of Japan's holdings also provided that the port of Dalian (Dairen) should be internationalized, that Port Arthur should be restored to its status before the 1904-5 Russo-Japanese War as a Russian naval base,
and that the Manchurian railroads should be under
joint Chinese-Soviet administration.
China later protested that it was not informed of these decisions concerning its territory and that its sovereignty was infringed.
The United States and Great Britain also agreed to recognize the autonomy of Outer Mongolia, and to admit Ukraine and Belorussia (Belarus) to the United Nations as full members.The Yalta agreements were disputed even before the Potsdam Conference later in 1945.
The subsequent outbreak of the cold war and Soviet successes in Eastern
Europe led to much criticism in the United States of the Yalta
Conference and of Roosevelt, who was accused of delivering Eastern
Europe to Communist domination.
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joint Chinese-Soviet administration.
China later protested that it was not informed of these decisions concerning its territory and that its sovereignty was infringed.
The United States and Great Britain also agreed to recognize the autonomy of Outer Mongolia, and to admit Ukraine and Belorussia (Belarus) to the United Nations as full members.The Yalta agreements were disputed even before the Potsdam Conference later in 1945.
The subsequent outbreak of the cold war and Soviet successes in Eastern
Europe led to much criticism in the United States of the Yalta
Conference and of Roosevelt, who was accused of delivering Eastern
Europe to Communist domination.
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Comment by Michael Grove on March 11, 2024 at 11:07
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Why did our Allies need to stain their hands with blood in Dresden and turn the civilians into ash? With the hindsight of 70 years, the motive of revenge seems to be secondary. In February 1945 it was already known that Dresden would be part of Soviet-occupied zone of post-war Germany. After the bombing of February 13 the Russians entered a city of burnt ruins and piles of corpses resembling, according to the memoirs of witnesses, fallen timber. So it seems the motive of frightening the Russians also played a role.
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Just like Hiroshima, Dresden was supposed to serve as a demonstration to the Soviet Union of the power of the West. And in addition to power, a readiness to ignore all principles of humanity to achieve their aims. “Today it’s Dresden and Hiroshima, tomorrow it will be Gorky, Kuibyshev and Sverdlovsk – you understand, Mister Stalin?” Today we see this same cynicism manifested through the rocket attacks on cities of Eastern Ukraine.
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Of course, everything was perfectly clear to the Soviet Union. Following the Great Patriotic War we had to not only rebuild destroyed cities and razed villages but also create a defensive shield. One of the most important lessons of the war was the commitment of our country and its people to humanism. The orders coming from the front-line commanders and supreme command were to not take revenge on the Germans. Not long before the bombing of Dresden our soldiers saved another ancient city from such a fate – the city of Krakow.
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A very symbolic act was the saving of the collection of Dresden’s famous Grünes Gewölbe (Green Vault) museum by Soviet soldiers. The pictures were meticulously restored in the USSR and returned to Dresden after the city was rebuilt with the active participation of Soviet specialists and in part on our money.
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People of the 21st century cannot forget about the ashes of Khatyn and tens of thousands of other Russian, Ukrainian and Belarussian villages, nor about Coventry, Dresden and Hiroshima. Their ashes continue to beat in our hearts. As long as humankind remembers, it will not allow new wars.
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Source: The Russian Military Historical Society
http://letschangetheworld.ning.com/profiles/blogs/remembering-dresden
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