| | What really happened at Yalta. By David Greenberg - Slate Magazine (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21) |
 | | Many of the agreements the Big Three reached at Yalta were relatively uncontroversial: The Allies decided to demand unconditional surrender from Germany, to carve up the country into four zones for its postwar occupation, and to proceed with plans to set up the United Nations. |
 | | He's right in his general point: all three pacts (Munich, Molotov-Ribbentrop, and Yalta) were negotiated to serve the interests of the powerful nations that brokered them, and all three disposed of the fate of weaker nations without awarding them a seat at the bargaining table. |
 | | Munich and Yalta, on the other hand, were part of a very different unjust tradition: the tendency of democratic nations to "appease" warmongers and tyrants, even at the expense of their honor and ideals. |
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