gunter will start it and i will run around with the microphone. gunter? >> thank you very much, jeremy. let me just throw a few general questions out that we could discuss, i thought. the issue came up with serhii and by rob too, his growing up in cleveland, that is what callers have called the yalta myths. keep in mind, that was a very good question from the audience, is this sort of the same thing as the selling out of the eastern europe the same thing as the selling out of china? that big debate in american post-war politics, keep in mind the context for that debate is that the republicans have been out of office since 1932. they had won big in the '46 election. and they wanted to win the white house. and this seemed to be the issue where you could blame the democrats for really doing bad things, meaning selling out china, selling out eastern europe at yalta and that's how yalta became a bad word in the immediate post-war period. serhii talked about it. these yalta myths, i think that as rob told us, echoed all the way into the 1970s in his europeans,

gunter has been a friend since before we had a building. he goes back all of the way to the early days as a master student he went to harvard to attain his ph.d and came back home in a way to join the faculty. he was equally important here. his wife just retired from being a lifelong school teacher and involved with our educational committee. as i mentioned going way back, so we heard lots of suggestions from dr. bishoff through the years and we have enacted them slowly, but a couple things that today really point out to me is the students. gunter and his friends and his partners have been very strong and advocating. they have folks here that travel from the county ri and also with living scholars. they are fresh out of a ph.d program, and to look at a broader international perspective and try to bring in not just the american experience and our public programming. and lastly he has been a long-time advocate that we need to get a distinguished scholar here. thank you for everything you said, gunter. he is the martial plan director. he came

. >>> history professor gunter bischof looks at summits in iran, quÉbec and moscow.he reviews the postwar decisions made during these meetings and the political leaders in attendance. the national world war ii museum hosted the event. >> greetings, ladies and gentlemen. it's a pleasure to see you all here and it's always great to see -- i don't want to say so many. probably all are familiar faces because you are so loyal to our programming and we saw most of you in november and we hope to see most of you again in november and in between in september for our memory conference. as steven had said, unfortunately, the doctor tried his best, slipped on the way and caught his balance. but all three flights from burlington, vermont, were canceled to get him here yesterday. and while we are disappointed, he is even for disappointed that he couldn't make it back down here and present. but i can tell you that we are very fortune in this great city of new orleans to have one of the leading scholars in this field in gunter bischof here to fill the breach. gunter has been a frien

gÜnter bischof. [applause] >> i thank you. ukrainian history professor serhii plokhii outlines the major issues and decisions of the 1945 yalta conference, which took place at a crimean resort in ukraine. this documentary is part of a national world war ii symposium marking the history between the talks -- of the talks between franklin roosevelt, winston churchill and joseph stolen. >> welcome back, ladies and gentlemen for our next event. it's more or less the keynote of the day because it is the top on the yalta conference, the all of the programs, all of the sessions will be wonderful. we have doctor serhii plokhi

gÜnter talked about it in his top.ess, closeness, what is the status and how did you achieve access to those archives? >> well, the kgb archives is where the major documents are and sources are. the kgb archives are probably now the most open archives that exist in ukraine today. after the maidan protest, it includes the kgb archives. because those three air bases that i'm talking about, by the way that was the only case where the americans and soviets were fighting side by side. the grand alliance was a very strange alliance. the british and the soviets -- the british and the americans were together, but the soviet union and the west we're fighting on different fronts. so those air bases were the only exception to that rule. and because it was in ukraine, those materials of military counterintelligence, surveillance of the population, so on and so forth, they are based in kyiv. they are accessible. there are volumes and volumes and i was in touch with mostly families and sons of some of those people where there. excha

you just referenced the kgb archives and gunter talked about it in his talk.ess, closeness and what was the status and how did you achieve access to those archives? >> well the kgb archives are not as closed as they used to be onÑ territorial russia today and z0í that's where the major, major documents are and sources are. the kgb archives are probably now the most open after divers that exist in ukraine today, so there's an openness of archives including the kgb after divers. because those three air bases that i'm talking, by the way the only case where the americans and soviets were fighting side-by-side. the grand alliance was a very strange low pressure system. the british and the americans were together. but the west and the soviet union were fighting on different front. so those air bases was the only exception to that rule. and because it was in ukraine those materials of military counter negligence, of surveillance of the population and so on and so forth they are based in kiev. then they are accessible. there are volumes and volumes of those documents

gunter had an outstanding, do you i warrant but they couldn't book him into contra costa jail in martinezrestrictions. that subject's warned, did not meet the criteria to be placed in the jail. so that subsequently released then, at about 1 45 monday morning, several businesses along railroad avenue had rocks thrown through their windows, including restaurants, a donut shop and a co store workers spent the morning cleaning up s and he got a bunch of them. danny kiev. al's doughnut, says the rock bounce off the wall but didn't hit any treats. just a bum on. he just start throwing rocks so and then the guy went over and started hitting every single window across the street. stop. our local starbucks had been burglarized and. property inside had been vandalized and destroyed approximately $10,000 worth of image. this time the suspect went to jail. pittsburgh police and others say repeat offenders are taking advantage of the situation. getting arrested over and over with no real consequence. officers are frustrated, however. these are the guidelines that are put in place by those who are abov

gunter had an outstanding, do you i warrant but they couldn't book him into contra costa jail in martinezng covid-19 restrictions. that subject's warned, did not meet the criteria to be placed in the jail. so that subsequently released then, at about 1 45 monday morning, several businesses along railroad avenue had rocks thrown through their windows, including restaurants, a donut shop and a co store workers spent the morning cleaning up s and he got a bunch of them. danny kiev. al's doughnut, says the rock bounce off the wall but didn't hit any treats. just a bum on. he just start throwing rocks so and then the guy went over and started hitting every single window across the street. stop. our local starbucks had been burglarized and. property inside had been vandalized and destroyed approximately $10,000 worth of image. this time the suspect went to jail. pittsburgh police and others say repeat offenders are taking advantage of the situation. getting arrested over and over with no real consequence. officers are frustrated, however. these are the guidelines that are put in place by those

. >>> history professor gunter bischof looks at summits in iran, quÉbec and moscow.reviews the postwar decisions made during these meetings and the political leaders in attendance. the national world war ii museum hosted the event. >> greetings, ladies and gentlemen. it's a pleasure to see you all here and it's always great to see -- i don't want to say so many. probably all are familiar faces because you are so loyal to our programming and we saw most of

gunter had an outstanding, do you i warrant but they couldn't book him into contra costa jail in martinezng covid-19 restrictions. that subject's warned, did not meet the criteria to be placed in the jail. so that subsequently released then, at about 1 45 monday morning, several businesses along railroad avenue had rocks thrown through their windows, including restaurants, a donut shop and a co store workers spent the morning cleaning up s and he got a bunch of them. danny kiev. al's doughnut, says the rock bounce off the wall but didn't hit any treats just a bum, and he just starts throwing rocks so and then the guy went over and started hitting every single window across the street. stop. our local starbucks had been burglarized and. property inside had been vandalized and destroyed approximately $10,000 worth of damage. this time the suspect went to jail. pittsburgh police and others say repeat offenders are taking advantage of the situation. getting arrested over and over with no real consequence. officers are frustrated, however. these are the guidelines that are put in place by thos

gunter had an outstanding do i warrant but they couldn't book him into contra costa jail in martinezng covid-19 restrictions that subject's warren did not meet the criteria to be placed in the jail. so that subsequently released then, at about 1 45 monday morning, several businesses along railroad avenue had rocks thrown through their windows, including restaurants, a donut shop and a co store workers spent the morning cleaning up s a rock and he got a bunch of them. danny kiev. al's doughnut, says the rock bounce off the wall but didn't hit any treats. just a bump on he just start throwing rocks so and then the guy went over and started hitting every single window across the street. stop. our local starbucks had been burglarized and. property inside had been vandalized and destroyed approximately $10,000 worth of damage. this time the suspect went to jail. pittsburgh police and others say repeat offenders are taking advantage of the situation. getting arrested over and over with no real consequence. officers are frustrated, however. these are the guidelines that are put in place by