The Kremlin appears to be anticipating a geopolitical deal reminiscent of Yalta, one that would serve its interests through a hard-nosed pact between major powers. For Moscow, securing such a pact ...

Stalin did not need a Yalta agreement to give him the real estate; his motive at Yalta was political, not geographic. Nobody knew better than the Russians that the Poles would not make docile slaves.

Pre-conference documents released in the Yalta records reveal that J. W. Pehle, executive director of the War Refugee Board, advised Secretary of State Edward Stettinius a month before the Yalta ...

If any Nation readers are apt to be swayed by all the hysterical talk of Trump’s “betraying” Ukraine, “serving Putin,” “abandoning Europe” and creating a “new Yalta agreement,” I would urge them to ...

Roosevelt and British prime minister Winston Churchill at Yalta, Crimea, to discuss their joint plans for the postwar order. Their agreement ratified Soviet control of Eastern Europe. For this ...

Stalin did not, in so many words, press this desire at Yalta. He did not have to. Even in the gloomy days of 1941, Anthony Eden had described the Germany required for orderly Europe. Said Eden ...

"The most important thing is that nobody should be waiting for an equivalent of the Yalta pact. There will be none. The contract law’s life cycle - which has turned out to be a rather long one ...

“This is either the Yalta or the Helsinki moment,” he noted, comparing the 1945 conference to the 1975 agreement on human rights and cooperation among states signed by the U.S., the Soviet ...

The starting point of the events that led to the outbreak of World War II was not the Molotov—Ribbentrop Pact, but the Munich ...