This year is the 75th anniversary of the end of World War Two. One of the biggest frauds of the final stage of that war was the meeting at Yalta of Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin, British Prime ...

At the Yalta Conference 75 years ago, the Soviet leader got everything he wanted — and shaped global politics for decades. By Diana Preston Ms. Preston is the author of “Eight Days at Yalta: How ...

In February 1945, Franklin Roosevelt, Winston Churchill and Joseph Stalin spent eight days meeting at the resort town of Yalta on the Black Sea, negotiating what they imagined would be a just and ...

FDR's complicity in Stalin's post-WWII bloodletting started a trend of lies and hypocrisy in U.S. foreign policy. The fact that the Soviet regime had been the most oppressive government in the world ...

Historian Preston (Paradise in Chains) describes how “war-weary” British prime minister Winston Churchill, “seriously ill” U.S. president Franklin D. Roosevelt, and Soviet autocrat Joseph Stalin ...

It was in exchange for Stalin’s pledge to join the war against Japan that Roosevelt made concessions on Eastern Europe. Editor’s note: Today marks the 75th anniversary of the commencement of the Yalta ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. Cold War antagonism between the ...

Seventy-five years ago, we lost the war. Or, more precisely, we gave up on winning it. Among all the 75th anniversaries marked by our politicians — D-Day, V-E Day, V-J Day — this week’s is the one ...

Eighty years ago this month, the United States and Great Britain effectively conceded Eastern Europe and parts of Central Europe to Soviet control at the infamous Yalta Conference held at the Livadia ...

Churchill did not take part in Yalta’s Far Eastern discussions. His memoirs for late 1944 show his curt dismissal of the importance of China. “This American obsession,” he wrote. “That China is one of ...

At Yalta in 1945, the Big Three formalized plans for occupation zones in Germany. Stalin, above right, also agreed to join the U.N..Franklin D. Roosevelt Library No doubt about it—the Russians were ...