Yalta: Witness To History by Robert Wernick

Author:Robert Wernick [Wernick, Robert]
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: HISTORY / General
ISBN: 9781612305806
Publisher: New Word City, Inc.
Published: 2012-03-21T04:30:00+00:00

They agreed that the Poles should get a chunk of eastern Germany to make up for losing their eastern provinces, which had been assigned to the Soviet Union at the Teheran Conference 15 months before Yalta. But they could not agree on how much territory. Stalin solved the problem unilaterally by giving the Poles about a third of the occupation zone in Germany, which had been assigned to him by agreement in the fall of 1944.

Stalin had, while talking with British Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden three years previously in Moscow, explained pithily what he thought of the decisions of international conferences: “Declarations - that is like algebra; treaties or agreements - that is practical arithmetic. We prefer arithmetic to algebra.”

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