The End of Yalta

Yalta, a smallish town in the Crimea, became a symbol. Timothy Garton Ash in his book “The Polish Revolution: Solidarity”, wrote: “When I was in Poland for the first time, I frequently heard the magic word "Yalta”. 'Yalta’, my new friends would sigh. At the word 'Yalta', conversation would fade into a melancholy silence. Does 'Yalta' mean fate?” The Crimean Conference of the leaders of the anti--Hitler coalition (Churchill, Roosevelt and Stalin), which took place on 4-11 February 1945, was yet another stage in the Soviet conquest of Eastern Europe. For the nations of Eastern Europe it was a sentence. (Agreement, fragment)