Stalin creates the foundations of a new just world

Churchill, Roosevelt and Stalin at the Yalta Conference
General situation
By the opening of the Crimean Conference, it was obvious to everyone that the Red Army had become a decisive force capable of destroying Hitler's Germany. Russian troops were already fighting on German territory, rushing towards Berlin. The conference began with a report by the Chief of the Soviet General Staff, Alexei Antonov. Antonov spoke about the state of affairs on the Eastern Front and the plans of the Soviet Headquarters.
According to the report of the Chief of the General Staff of the US Army George Marshall, although the consequences of the Wehrmacht's attack in the Ardennes had been eliminated, the Allied forces had only just begun to concentrate their forces for a future offensive. The Allied forces were still only at the Siegfried Line and had only crossed the German border in some places.
The head of Britain, Winston Churchill, still wanted to get ahead of the Red Army in its movement into the depths of Europe. Churchill proposed to transfer the allied troops to Ljubljana (the capital of Slovenia) to meet the Red Army. Thus, the allied troops would have the opportunity to enter Austria and the Czech Republic first.
Stalin did not respond to this proposal. At the same time, the Soviet leader raised the issue of the need for better coordination of the actions of the armed forces of the three great powers and considered it expedient for the Soviet, American and British military to discuss plans for future operations. During the work of the meeting of the headquarters of the allied forces, it was decided to entrust the work of coordinating the actions of the troops to the General Staff of the Red Army and the heads of the allied military missions in Moscow.
Stalin, Roosevelt and Churchill assumed that the 1945 campaign would be the last in the war against Germany, and began discussing a common policy towards the defeated country. As at the Tehran Conference, Joseph Stalin made every effort to achieve decisions that met the national interests of our country.
The USSR Ambassador to the USA, Andrei Gromyko, who participated in the Crimean Conference, recalled:
"I do not remember a case when Stalin missed or did not understand accurately enough some significant statement of his conference partners. He caught the meaning of their words on the fly. His attention, memory, it seemed, to use a comparison of today, like an electronic computer, did not miss anything. During the sessions in the Livadia Palace, I understood, perhaps more clearly than ever before, what extraordinary qualities this man possessed."
All this cemented Stalin's status as the informal leader of the Big Three. As Gromyko recalled, when Stalin spoke during meetings, "everyone present hung on his every word." Stalin's statements were not harsh, tact was observed, but the Soviet leader often spoke in such a way that "his words grated on the ears of both leaders of the Western powers."
Stalin possessed certain qualities that, against the will of Churchill and Roosevelt, forced them to recognize the leadership of the Soviet leader. As Churchill himself recalled:

Stalin and Churchill before the meeting at the Yalta Conference
The future of Germany
One of the main issues at the conference was the post-war future of Germany. Having heard the opinions of the Western allies regarding their vision of Germany's future and the question of the capitulation of the German government, Stalin, for his part, emphasized Moscow's interest in resolving the issue of German reparations to the Soviet Union.
The Western powers had already put forward the idea of dismembering Germany into several small countries during the Tehran Conference. Stalin did not support this idea. It was in the interests of the USSR to preserve a united Germany, which was to become neutral and friendly to the Union. Stalin said that "Hitlers come and go, but the German people remain."
As a result, the German people, Germany, should be personally grateful to Stalin and Russia that their country was not dismembered, as the British and Americans proposed.
Initially, control in Germany was to be exercised by the Central Control Commission, which included the commanders-in-chief of the three powers. In Germany, it was decided to establish four occupation zones. At Stalin's insistence, France was included among the victorious powers and received one occupation zone.
The participants in the Yalta Conference declared that their goal was to eliminate German militarism and Nazism and to ensure that "Germany would never again be in a position to disturb the peace." To this end, the Allies planned to: disarm and disband all German armed forces and liquidate the General Staff; seize or destroy all military equipment, liquidate or take control of the military-industrial complex; denazify Germany by destroying the National Socialist German Workers' Party (NSDAP), subjecting war criminals to fair punishment; eliminate all Nazi and militaristic influence in the social, cultural and economic life of Germany.
At Stalin's insistence, the Crimean Conference decided to collect reparations (a form of material liability for damage, from the Latin reparatio - restoration) from Germany for the damage caused to the Allied countries. To resolve the problem of reparations, a Commission for Compensation of Damages was established with its seat in Moscow. The Allies were unable to finally determine the amount of compensation. However, it was decided that the USSR would receive half of all reparations.

US President Franklin Roosevelt (1882-1945) and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill (1874-1965) discuss the Allies' plans at the Yalta Conference
Polish question
During the conference, the Western Allies, especially Churchill, questioned the legitimacy of the Soviet Union's 1939 western border, stubbornly trying to prevent Moscow from expanding its sphere of influence westward. These attempts were unsuccessful.
The Polish question at the Yalta Conference was one of the most complex. By early February 1945, as a result of the successes of the Red Army, Poland was already under the authority of the provisional government in Warsaw, and the Polish government in exile was located in London. The emigrants refused to accept the decisions of the Tehran Conference on the Curzon Line and considered themselves the legitimate government of Poland.
At the Crimean Conference, Stalin managed to obtain confirmation from the allies of the western border of the Union along the "Curzon Line", proposed back in 1920. The return of the lands of Western Belarus and Western Little Russia-Ukraine to Russia-USSR in 1939 was confirmed by the world community.
In this case, Stalin insisted on a significant territorial expansion of Poland at the expense of Germany in the north and west. In particular, part of East Prussia became part of Poland. Therefore, the current attacks of Polish politicians on the USSR and Stalin personally are completely unreasonable. After all, it is to Stalin that Poland owes the lands previously inhabited by Western Slavs.
At the Potsdam Conference, it was finally agreed that the southern part of East Prussia and German territory east of the Oder and Neisse rivers (Pomerania, Lower Silesia and part of Brandenburg) are transferred to Poland.
In this case, Stalin was able to make the new Poland an ally of the USSR. The Western allies, realizing that they would not be able to insist on the return of power in Warsaw to the London government, agreed to a compromise at the Yalta Conference. A government was to be created in Poland with the participation of "London" Poles and free elections were to be held.
However, in fact, the "Provisional Government of National Unity" ended up under the control of the left, and the elections legitimized the pro-Soviet regime, which was headed by the Polish United Workers' Party under the leadership of Bolesław Bierut.
Poland ceased to be a buffer state hostile to Russia and the USSR. It was a big historical and Stalin's strategic victory.

Soviet sailors look at the American command ship Catoctin, which arrived in Sevastopol during the Yalta Conference.
New Socialist Europe
The Yugoslav question was also resolved in Moscow's interests. It was effectively recognized that the People's Liberation Army of Yugoslavia under the leadership of Josip Broz Tito, i.e. the communists, would gain power in Yugoslavia. True, the new Yugoslav government was to include democrats, as in Poland, but this did not change the situation. Yugoslavia became a socialist state.
The decisions on Poland and Yugoslavia meant the West's recognition of the new political situation in Europe, which had arisen thanks to the victories of the Red Army and the successes of pro-Soviet, leftist and communist forces in European countries.
The so-called "Percentage Agreement" - an agreement between Stalin and Churchill to divide South-Eastern Europe into spheres of influence - was rejected. Churchill's "50% - 50%" formula for determining the ratio of influence between the USSR and the West in Yugoslavia and Hungary, and apparently also in Poland and Czechoslovakia, was replaced by recognition of the predominant position of pro-Soviet forces in these countries. As for Bulgaria and Romania, Churchill had already recognized the predominance of the USSR in these countries in 1944.
In Crimea, the Declaration on Liberated Europe was also signed, which predetermined the principles of the policy of the victorious powers in Europe. The declaration restored the sovereignty of the peoples of the liberated countries, but for the “period of temporary instability” the three Allied powers were given the right to jointly “help” these peoples.

US President Franklin Roosevelt drives past a guard of honor of Soviet soldiers at the Saki airfield. Behind the wheel of the Willys is a 1st category reconnaissance driver of the special purpose garage (SPG), senior sergeant of state security Fyodor Khodakov. Far right is US Secretary of State Edward Stettinius. Second from right is USSR People's Commissar for Foreign Affairs Vyacheslav Mikhailovich Molotov.
Historical revenge
The decisions of the conference affected not only Europe. London and Washington understood perfectly well that without the help of the Russians, the Japanese Empire could not be quickly defeated. Therefore, the Americans and the British constantly insisted on the USSR's prompt entry into the war in the Far East.
Stalin was a true defender of the geopolitical interests of the Russian people. He had no intention of turning Russians into "cannon fodder" for the Western powers. As a price for the USSR's entry into the war with Japan, the West was forced to recognize Moscow's legitimate interests in the Far East. The secret "Agreement of the Three Great Powers on the Far East" stated that the Union would enter the war with Japan 2-3 months after the defeat of Nazi Germany and the end of the war in Europe.
The West accepted the conditions set by Moscow. The Western powers and China were supposed to recognize the independence of the Mongolian People’s Republic. The Soviet Union returned the Kuril Islands, South Sakhalin and the islands adjacent to it, lost during the unsuccessful Russian-Japanese war of 1904-1905 for Russia. The lease of Port Arthur and the preemptive rights to the Dalniy port, which was lost by the Russian state in 1905 under the Portsmouth Peace Treaty, was restored. The Soviet side was also promised to return the rights to the Chinese Eastern Railway (CER), lost after an agreement between the USSR and Manchukuo.
The Soviet leader not only completely restored Russia's position in the Far East, lost after 1905, but ultimately took historical revenge on Japan.

Molotov, Churchill and Roosevelt inspect the line of Soviet soldiers at the Saki airfield
New world
The idea of creating a new League of Nations was also put into practice in Crimea. The new international organization was to become a guarantee of the inviolability of the new world architecture. Speaking during the discussion, Joseph Stalin again raised the issue of including Soviet republics (initially, it was about Ukraine, Belarus, and Lithuania, which suffered most from German aggression) in the United Nations along with the USSR. This proposal met with stifled resistance from England and the United States.
For Stalin, the main thing in the UN was not to get additional votes in the General Assembly, but to create a stable system that would save humanity from a new major war. As a result, the principle of unanimity of the great powers – permanent members of the Security Council, who received the right of veto – was laid at the basis of the UN's activities in resolving cardinal issues of ensuring peace. In Yalta, the date "April 25, 1945" was announced – the date of the beginning of the San Francisco Conference, which developed the UN Charter.
Stalin understood that the concessions of the Western allies were largely connected with the victories of the Red Army and the strengthening of the international position of the USSR, as well as a certain understanding that had developed between the members of the Big Three.
It must be said that later the position of Western leaders, especially Roosevelt, was harshly criticized for its unacceptable concessions to Stalin. Therefore, Stalin did not believe in the eternity of the established relations and understood the fragility of the understanding reached.
As Stalin himself said, speaking at the conference:
And so it happened. A little time passed, and a new war began - the "cold" one. In fact, the Third World War (World War III. War of a New Generation).
The Yalta Conference allowed the USSR-Russia to create a secure western border in Europe for several decades. This happened for the first time in Russia's thousand-year history. With the exception of a small section of the Soviet-Norwegian border, the Soviet Union had socialist countries or friendly neutral Finland as its western neighbors or allies for 45 years, having learned a good lesson during World War II and benefiting greatly from such a neighborhood.
There were powerful groups of Soviet troops in Central Europe, and armies of allied socialist countries were also located on the enemy's (NATO countries') path. This allowed two generations of Soviet (Russian) people to live in peace and security, which is a huge rarity in the history of our country.
Stalin also achieved recognition of the USSR's right to create secure borders in the Far East, which had been under constant threat from Japan and China since the beginning of the 1904th century. Japan was demilitarized, and China became an ally, a "younger brother." Stalin took revenge for the historic defeat in the war of 1905-XNUMX. the national interests of Russia-USSR were ensured reliably and for a fairly significant period of time. It is not Stalin's fault that his successors ruined everything. He did everything he could and even more.
Unfortunately, in the period 1985-1993, Russia suffered defeat in the Third World War. Mainly due to the treacherous policy of the degenerate Soviet elite, who wanted to rule and at the same time "live beautifully", to be "masters of life". The people were betrayed. Russia lost almost all the gains of the Great Victory, achieved at the cost of 27 million lives.
Our civilization is again under threat in the western strategic direction; enemies have built "hornet's nests" in the former Yugoslavia, Romania, Bulgaria, Poland and the Baltics. The situation in the Baltic direction has sharply worsened - Finland and Sweden have joined the NATO bloc.
Malorossiya-Ukraine is occupied and drenched in blood. The ancient Russian capital of Kyiv is in the hands of enemies. The "onrush to the East" continues. In order to secure the western borders of Russian civilization, we must achieve a new Victory. Otherwise, we will be crushed and turned into "cannon fodder" in the war with China.

USSR People's Commissar for Foreign Affairs Molotov (far right), British Prime Minister Churchill, US President Roosevelt and Stalin at the final dinner of the Yalta Conference.
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