On this day in 1945 the Yalta Conference between the “Big Three” (Churchill, Roosevelt, and Stalin) opens at the Livadia Palace in the Crimea.
On this day in 1945 the Yalta Conference between the “Big Three” (Churchill, Roosevelt, and Stalin) opens at the Livadia Palace in the Crimea.
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How many people here can say without thinking twice, “hmm, Churchill, Stalin, Roosevelt.” I feel old.
Was it cold?
I’ve always wondered whether Roosevelt, had he lived longer, would of been able to prevent the Cold War. Stalin, apparently, had quite a good relationship with him so I think it is possible.
How did they decide who gets to sit in the center?
FDR was terminally sick by this point – and he looks it.
>Livadia
Was intrigued for a moment why it has the same name as a city in central Greece, and voila:
>[Livadiya was named thus by Lambros Katsonis](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Livadiya,_Crimea), a Greek revolutionary and Imperial Russian Army officer, after Livadeia, Greece, the town he was born in, then part of the Ottoman Empire. Katsonis had been granted an estate there by Empress Catherine II, which he named thus.
Eastern Europe: sobs in the corner.
Where sacrificing Poland to bloodthirsty Stalin happened.
Even at this point Stalin was still fearing a secret (to him and the USSR) pact between the Allies and the Germans in the West.
Incredible to see these world historical figures in the same place. And Churchill.
They look like they escaped an old peoples home
What a sad day
And so the occupation of Poland, Czechoslovakia, Lithuania and other eastern block countries began by USSR. This Yalta deal was a national tragedy for us all. I don’t think I have to explain how “papa’s Stalin care and attention” looked like.