Open AccessYalta Decisions: Was There an Alternative for the West?
Author(s) -
Vladimir Pechatnov
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
perspektivy
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2411-3417
DOI - 10.32726/2411-3417-2020-2-71-83
Subject(s) - compromise , victory , prologue , adversary , political science , criticism , power (physics) , cold war , balance (ability) , political economy , law , history , sociology , politics , archaeology , psychology , statistics , physics , mathematics , quantum mechanics , neuroscience
The concluding results of the anti-Hitler coalition meeting in Yalta have long been criticized in the United States by the antagonists of Franklin Roosevelt’s policy. In recent decades, they have raised renewed criticism in Central and Eastern Europe and across the West. Though, the decisions of Yalta Conference were fully determined by the balance of power and the real military situation on the war theatre by spring 1945. Each of the Allies pursued their own interests, but they appeared able to achieve a mutually acceptable compromise of these interests for the sake of final victory over common enemy. The Yalta Conference manifested the last upsurge of the Allied cooperation and in no way it served a prologue to the Cold War as it is now being asserted.