you can do more, although i do not want under any circumstances to see hitler in the winners. to understand such a view from washington, one should remember that by the year 41 the ussr was almost an outcast , only a few years had passed since the country was recognized by the united states as communism is considered a dangerous ideology for western capitalism, and with the onset of a large-scale economic crisis. the great depression, which is also potentially attractive for the impoverished masses in 1938, britain france are going to sign the munich agreements with hitler, bypassing the ussr hitler surrender czechoslovakia and in the thirty-ninth, poland does not give a corridor for soviet troops to fulfill allied obligations to prague, the ussr is again pushed back from resolving security issues in europe, and security on the continent is less and less

hitler annexes austria enters czechoslovakia european leaders sign a fact with him, leaving in side of the soviet union like pushers. hitler to attack him, which is why the molotov-ribbentrop pact has been so worrying for the west to this day in violation of london plans, moscow postponed the beginning of the inevitable war by concluding an agreement with germany and not an attack. of course, the eastern front was pulling back the german forces of the western, but in the conditions of a global war, london, washington is forced to consider the ussr as a tactical ally in relation to, of course, communism has not changed, but it was a conscious decision of the ruling circles and to look at papers, churching or weapons, they strongly distrusted communism and the communist soviet union, but believed that an ally was the most valuable asset, so he needed support, when there is no longer a need for this asset, then, accordingly, the mood. i think

my grandfather was afraid of communism and saw it as a serious problem because he didn't believe in it. he did not believe that this was rhetoric, that it could bring happiness to people, he was very worried that nothing could change her was a long-standing hostility to communism. he was very suspicious of the soviet union as the source of the communist pantsir, but it seems to me that at the same time he respected the strength of russia and for him the ussr has always it was in russia that stalin and churchill found a common language, because both saw each other as leaders defending the interests of their countries . the first contacts with moscow make it clear to western countries that two things can be negotiated with the kremlin, and the kremlin has its own interests, which it intends to defend. in february 42, us secretary of state hal writes to president roosevelt that there is no doubt

that the soviet government has huge ambitions for europe and at some stage the united states and great britain will have to express your disagreement. but in the forty-fifth, the idea of ​​confronting the ussr no longer arises, roosevelt, however, understands that it is better to share european influence with the ussr, which is growing in battles, than with losing the empire of london, roosevelt has already matured plans for the creation of the un and the future security council. but in march 1942, the united states and britain tacitly agreed on the principles for dividing the post-war world without the ussr. the united states was supposed to control the pacific region , britain, the middle east and the indian ocean. europe was to be jointly ruled. this arrogant view of the west on the management of the world will become a trend of the 20th century and will jeopardize the civilization of the eyelids, 21, whether the west accepts its

responsibility here, they understand only one responsibility to be the only power in the world, this is the reason for our confrontation. what they really want here is for russia to submit to the us, that's the only way for them to achieve peace. you must obey, but at the height of the second world war, the soviet ambassador in london, ivan maisky, indignantly reprimanded british foreign minister anthony eaton england and the usa behave as if the almighty god called them to judge the affairs of the rest of the sinful world, including my country in these conditions. the first meeting of stalin's churchills in august 1942 was a meeting of recent open opponents,

forced to move in the face of a single external enemy. churchill, at the age of 65, courageously endures a ten-hour flight with refueling in gibraltar in cairo, tehran, overflights, the aircraft at war in europe is kept at its maximum height and churchill sits in an oxygen mask all the way. trollite. guest, british. it seems that they are afraid to fight, he says, hinting that the second front does not open churchill feels insulted, but soon the sphere of negotiations becomes warmer. joseph stalin even invites a friend of winston to his kremlin apartment, an acquaintance with his daughter treats him with cognac and a roasted pig. churchill confessed because he had never had such a headache in the morning when my grandfather arrived in moscow, stalin told him that the british cowards churchill was very

close to his heart. it took could not recover, but already after that conversation they again talked with stalin, because both of them understood that people are different, but they are united by power and strength and together they are destined to do what others are not capable of, but i don’t think that they could become friends, whenever it was. the decision to open a second front will be made only a year after this moscow meeting, for the first time the big three will meet in tehran in the forty- third year, it is at this moment that roosevelt understands how the military power of the ussr is growing before our eyes if the second front goes on like this, it may not be necessary, the thirty-second president of the united states noted more than once victory is inevitable and we must hurry to divide the world into three, while in the war. there isn't one winner. the dating period is over. this

little-known photo was taken at the wing of the vorontsov palace, where the church was located. here, on the left is the deputy people's commissar of internal affairs of the ussr, colonel-general of the nkvd sergey kruglov in six months, this officer of the soviet special services, not the most famous in history, will receive the order of the legion counting above the american award and even become a knight of the british crown. the future sir, kruglov, was officially engaged in the accommodation and meals of the big three, but the accommodation also meant security. churchill could not help but appreciate the peace of the southern coast of crimea. on february 1945 , churchill liked the south terrace of the vorontsov palace. and of course, the famous lions, like a true englishman. he could not pass by lions , this is the symbol of the british empire. but this sleeper said he was his daughter. actually looks like me according to one of the legends. he even offered stalin to sell it. naturally for part of the british

budget. churchill did not like that upon arrival they were met not by stalin but only by molotov, but the following days in the luxury of the vorontsov or vadia palaces completely changed in relations in the first place. he was sure that all this was being done to destroy hitler. winston churchill said sweat hitler to hell. i would invite the devil to the chamber of society , i thought that he was destined to create that holy union, i think, then in yalta it was said a lot of toast eaten sandwiches with caviar and drink a lot of vodka conference, usa

listen, there is a goal to make europe its market. and if the ussr develops, it will be easier for it to subdue the markets of europe. why should the future hegemons create competitors with their own hands? franklin roosevelt lived in livadia where meetings were held , he lived there because of his illness for many years, he could not walk, and in the crimea it was noticeable that his strength was leaving before his eyes, the former reception room of emperor nicholas was converted into a bedroom from it to the hall with around the table just a few meters roosevelt could concentrate on work. just a couple of hours a day, they arranged car rides along the crimean coast for him and once roosevelt admitted to stalin that after the presidency he would like to sell in america the soviet champagne he liked so much, stalin smiled and noticed that champagne is made, by the way, from grapes that are grown in his native georgia the germans were expelled from the crimea only eight

months ago and the palaces of the road had to be restored furniture tableware products. the imperial scope amazed the guests. here is just a fragment of the minister, and the american delegation of the broth in cups is dry. and a glass of vodka for the first veal chops and french fries with port wine for the second fruit with nutmeg for dessert once roosevelt tried cabbage soup he was delighted to ask them to be served to him every day and the american delegation in the livadia palace of the british here in vorontsov soviet chefs were treated to the highest standards not only of the military even peacetime and americans are british. later they remembered how hard it was for them every morning to eat pancakes with black caviar, russian pies, and the general soaked the british delegation. years later . the recollection of the yalta conference for us british was pleasant gastronomically,

useless in the military and depressing politically , one can understand. they entered the war as the strongest. the empire came out as a battered island state. it was in yalta that the roosevelts stalin spoke from the position of leaders, the superpowers of the future. bipolar world, the british prime minister maintained his dignity and tried to to balance in order to maintain british interests in europe, the history of his country and the courage of his soldiers stood out, but roosevelt already had 70% of world production, and stalin had 700 km of the front line and the strongest army ready to move to the german border for the final throw in berlin moreover churchill himself, until recently, in just a month, stood you asking stalin to speed up the offensive of the red army as he was afraid that the germans would change the allied forces of the slobber of the sequeda back to break, as at the beginning of the war, kerke. churchill wrote to stalin at the beginning of january 1945

, very heavy fighting was going on in the west. can we count on a major russian offensive on the vistula front or anywhere else during january the answer arrived in london the very next day, given the position of our allies. on the western front, the headquarters of the supreme high command. i decided to complete the preparations at an accelerated pace and, regardless of the weather, open wide offensive operations against the germans along the entire central front. not later than the second half of january. clearly in this conversation. outweighed churchill recalled how he held himself at the conference, stalin stalin made on us the greatest impression of his influence on people is irresistible when he entered the hall of the yalta conference, all of us, as if on command, got up and

strange things. for some reason, they kept their hands at their sides, he possessed a deep, logical and meaningful wisdom, devoid of any panic, was an unsurpassed master of finding ways out of the most hopeless situation. churchill built up personal relationships with stalin in a rather unusual way, he emphasized their military experience, after all, stalin was commander in chief and churchill spoke, when i first came to meet stalin i met, comrade sounds strange, churchill a british aristocrat imperialist and joseph stalin a communist seemed to have nothing in common, but churchill continued to think even despite his anti-soviet attitude after the war that stalin can be trusted because stalin keeps his word, for example, in 1944 stalin promised that the ussr would not

invade greece, the zone of british interests kept back. once churchill also wanted to see how stalin will stand in front of him from the armchair, at the seams he was especially late at the meeting. well, when he entered stalin was walking around the hall. here in this room, the former billiard emperor nicholas ii, her new owner, us president roosevelt, gives dinners during the conference, and at the end, the final document is signed at this table. well, usually at such summits, leaders only fix pre- formalized agreements, but in yalta everything is different agreements are born directly at the negotiating table during heated discussions. in this hall

draw the contours of the future world stalin insists on the transfer of the soviet union in this western ukraine and the expansion of poland's borders to the west. we need poland as an ally, so that there is a buffer with the western world that has always deceived us, but lvov was never russian, exclaims churchill lvov may not agree, stalin but warsaw was at that moment the soviet troops were already crossing the border of germany and the allies with arguments. stalin agree, but immediately after the conference launches air strikes on the future soviet sector wipe dresden off the face of the earth. this was the beginning of the discord that was inevitable, because the real trust never came into existence. grandfather

kosarev boris maksimovich was a photographer under the government representative of the minister of the ussr and at some point he was sent to work to shoot the yalta conference. ah, there is a telegram in which it is written where grandfather writes to grandmother that i left. i will be in yalta until february. a kiss to boris and grandfather sent that telegram in december, when he actually left after the yalta conference grandfather made a beautiful photo report, and in three copies, and for stalin they drew roses just like that, and one of these copies lies on the table, and grandfather returned stalin's copy of steel with words. take it for yourself. i don't want to see those faces. sorry, but it's necessary. roosevelt churchill

was sent the same copies. these are shots of the now forgotten, but during the war, hollywood film that collected a large box office in the united states, produced by emily golden production north star in this tape, the soviet union and its citizens are shown not at all like that. what are their see americans during the cold war years soviet people charming patriotic soldiers of the red army courageous selflessly the north star was nominated for an oscar six nominations in the forty- third, however, only 3 years later it was recognized in the usa as soviet propaganda, the commission for investigating un-american activities subjected the director to the first in history two oscar winner lewis milestone was bullied and in the end he

was forced to migrate from the usa this is the best time for mutual understanding when a friend is strangely in need in another american propaganda of 20 years, which painted the russian bolsheviks with the happiness of hell, hastily corrects public opinion. here is one of the posters from the time of the second front, photographs of the red army, the inscription is your friend. he fights for freedom. they wrote that the soviets are a totalitarian hell, but the goal has changed and the american soldiers are shaking hands with the red army on the elbe, and the big three are meeting in yalta, however, no one is building illusions of a politician - this is work for pragmatists. she 's worth a horse, redid the spheres of influence in the world to divide his even for three tasks difficult churchill

destruction of the military power of germany led to a radical change in relations between communist russia and western democracies. they lost their common enemy, the war against which was almost the only link that bound their union from now on, russian imperialism and communist doctrine did not see and did not set a limit to their progress and desire for the final gas. what was decided in yalta stalin was worried about the issues of german reparations, the buffer zone of eastern europe and the fate of germany, the nazis come and go noticed the generalissimo, and germany remains the ussr insisted on a united germany, the main goal is the demilitarization of this country, and not its complete destruction. as a result, the country will still be divided, and on the border with the socialist

part of it, american tanks will stand up missiles were interested in the balkans poland and the destruction of a united germany, dividing it into several mini-states in order to permanently remove competitors from the european market roosevelt was worried about the war with japan, the future planetary structure and inevitable impending death. yet he achieved stalin's consent to enter the war with japan and stalin's guarantee of the return of south sakhalin to the soviet union was an opportunity to wash away the shame of defeat in the russian-japanese war of 1905, poland's borders were pushed westward at the expense of german territories, germany was divided into temporary occupation zones, but left as and stalin insisted on a single state , it is noteworthy that the yalta peace began with the division into zones of germany and began to collapse when

germany was divided into two states, it was already officially and finally collapsed when germany united, what initiated the collapse of the soviet bloc? well, nothing, this leader of the big three could not yet be known, they created the un and the security council that will control the victorious countries. maybe in the future there will be wars, but there should not be such large-scale ones anymore. this is the place of the historical photo. the italian courtyard of the livadia palace is now in the place where i took pictures of the leaders of the big three . it was not an easy task everyday fuss of photographers, smiles, on faces, easy conversation, leaders, berlin still cannot be taken, but when these shots bypass all the world's screens and the front pages of seven newspapers it becomes clear. these are the winners. the end of the war

is inevitable. and these people know how to arrange the world after the war. in yalta, the best forces of journalism of the three countries, the selection of cameramen and directors, each country conducted a thorough secret livadia pool - these are several people, from each country their materials will see the light only when the leaders leave peninsula wartime security. here, on these frames, the young director sergei gerasimov was entrusted with editing the first video from the conference. the ussr gave the road to the young. it is today in the gig that bears his name, then. he is not a young guard. the quiet don has not yet taken off, he has not even dreamed about them, he is the only one from the entire soviet pool who was not somehow connected with the armed forces or special services, these yalta days may seem like a political idea, the war is not over yet, but the spirit of victory is already flying spirit. yalta will then speak

about these agreements spirit. they are letters that are more important than emotions, they infect more effectively than the boring letter of the law. churchill is shown destroyed by the germans, crimea from malakhov kurgan from a destroyed panorama. he inspects the ruins sweeping attributes like a lead snowstorm thins brigade under russian shrapnel these lines of alfred tennyson's poem for british schoolchildren are the same as for russian lermontovskaya borodino from childhood a resident of the united kingdom knows about the attack of a light brigade under a balaclava. here in the valley, drowning in vineyards, a width of two miles, as tennyson writes, russian troops killed the color of the british military aristocracy 600 cavalrymen died in this senseless attack winston churchill examines this place of the historical battle where, by the way, his great-grandfather the duke of marlborough died a little later, looking at the ruins of

neighboring sevastopol churchill even shed a tear and say that war must never again be repeated on earth in these moments a plan unthinkable already being worked out precisely in these days britain is pondering how to proceed after the war in order to to stop the victorious brother of the ussr plan to attack the soviet troops and oust them from poland, moreover , by the forces of not only the british and americans, but also the captured german troops, it has the code name unthinkable in the crimea and it is really unthinkable to imagine a new war. and churchill says, studying the plan. i hope this is only hypothetically they part in a good mood, in spite of everything they managed to agree, hitler is an enemy, they are allies, the world will not be the same, but for the new world order, one ear is not enough after the victory in the summer of 45 in the podsdam near the defeated berlin,

yalta harmony begins to crumble april 12, less than 2 months after yalta, roosevelt dies and the troika will no longer be the same in the subs, harry truman , vice president, arrives. loses the election and is replaced by a new prime minister, clemently. the yalta conference period ended, shockingly quickly shaping the white house good relations between the us and the soviet union, which were built over time of war. in yalta, it ended very quickly and from that moment on. there was no longer any hope of returning to the old relationship. everything fell apart very quickly. one of the main tragedies for the post-war era was that the person who in the united states understood the whole architecture of these events

died, and president truman came to replace him, who did not understand anything about it. even these shots show how uncomfortable stalin was in the company of little- known leaders, he negotiated with some, and other democracies arrived. sometimes sadly interferes with agreements, jokes, stalin is in poddam. during the break, truman will come up to him and say that the united states has a weapon of unprecedented power. a day earlier, in new mexico, the americans conducted the first test of a plutonium bomb called the little thing. truman will be surprised when stalin does not show that he was somehow frightened. stalin just looked out the window, smoked and nodded, nothing. he did not understand truman's hasty conclusion, but

the american president did not know that back in the forty- second year, when the red army rolled back to stalingrad, a young physicist. kurchatov was instructed to recruit a team of specialists for nuclear reaction research december 2, 1942 in chicago, the reaction farm physicist kurchatov begins work on the soviet bomb . uranus prophetic coincidence already in the forty-second year it was clear that perhaps the allied nuclear weapons would not be us allied us president fascinated by the atomic bomb, the demonstrative destruction of two japanese cities. and nagasaki gives him a reason to dream about the final dominion of the united states in the world of hiroshima. were destroyed indicative along with civilians and done. it was spectacular in hollywood with the pilot's phrase later replicated, how beautiful and it was done in order to

convince stalin and possibly force him to leave eastern europe but it was more of a warning. that we are strong here, and we are not afraid of anyone. this caused very sad consequences. harry truman declares that the united states will not share the secret of the atomic bomb with anyone, and in october 1945 he makes a speech in which he already formulates the basis of a new american doctrine, which will later be called by his name. the usa will have the greatest navy on earth one of the most powerful aircraft in the world the atomic bomb makes the development and

implementation of our policy inevitable and more pressing than we could imagine. it was 6 months ago that a romanian used an atomic bomb. why was there no moral justification, there was no military necessity to send a threat to moscow and moscow took it as military plans for what should happen to the soviet union and the military leader, for example, zhukov who formed. and in fact, churchill's famous fulton speech was initiated by the same truman when the president. trutlin read a speech at a small

college in fulton. i think he was surprised by the consent of his grandfather. after all, this is a small inconspicuous place, but what a speech turned out to be about the iron curtain, and there were words that from the stet on the baltic sea to the crossing on the adriatic sea, an iron one stretched and it was then that the world started talking about the iron curtain. exactly my grandfather introduced this is the notion of the baltic before moving to the adriatic iron curtain lowered in britain's economy was in a terrible state. and the new british government. there were massive plans to reshape british society. it all cost money. so they needed people to unite and they also needed america's help.