abstract:The Yalta Conference, sometimes called the Crimea Conference and codenamed the Argonaut Conference, held February 4–11, 1945, was the World War II meeting of the heads of government of the United States, the United Kingdom, and the Soviet Union, represented by President Franklin D. Roosevelt, Prime Minister Winston Churchill, and General Secretary Joseph Stalin, respectively, for the purpose of discussing Europe's post-war reorganization.
When Bohlen received the letter, he was busy with the YaltaConference, where the Big Three negotiated the future of Europe, and his reply to Kennan was brief.
In some ways, the idea of the Yaltaconference serves the purpose of building democracy in Ukraine better than any hypothetical governmental initiative: people with diametrically opposed opinions can gather for discussion and express their points of view.