At the time of the Yalta conference, the Soviets had the advantage of having their troops in the heart of Europe.

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When Bohlen received the letter, he was busy with the Yalta Conference, where the Big Three negotiated the future of Europe, and his reply to Kennan was brief.

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In some ways, the idea of the Yalta conference 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.

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The Yalta conference that took place early in 1945 between U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt, Prime Minister Winston Churchill and Soviet leader Joseph Stalin, paved the way for the subjugation of Poland and later countries such as Hungary and Czechoslovakia into the Soviet sphere of influence.

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Even though many of the details of the superpower meeting just concluded in Washington have yet to be disclosed, one fact is already clear: This summit represents the worst strategic miscalculation on the part of a president of the United States since the Yalta conference of 1945.

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He said, if it was not for the Yalta European Strategy conference network, the EU would not even be discussing Ukraine at all.

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