After reading a recent book on Yalta by S.M. Plokhy that used recently released soviet records, my view on this conference has greatly changed. Apparently FDR sided with Stalin against Churchill on many issues, like the admission of Soviet puppet states Ukraine and Belorussia into the UN as well as the soviet deportation of germans and poles to fit new post-war boundaries and even the forced deportation of Russian Axis POWs in return for a Soviet war on Japan and the creation of the UN. FDR and the Allies also failed to win a free democratic Poland and achieve their original peace goal, and the soviets dominated all of eastern europe save greece as a result. What does everyone else think of this conference?
Yalta shows who has really won the WW2 .The USSR as a real winner dictated it's will the USA and GB and they could not resist it.
Poland occupied a special place for the British because Britain entered the Second World War to protect Poland ostensibly from Germany and the London Poles lobbied for establishing an independent Poland in the post-war world. Churchill had to acquiesce to Soviet domination of Eastern Europe after negotiating with Stalin to create something better than a Soviet-dominated puppet government in Poland throughout the conference but Churchill at least saved Greece by the Percentages agreement of 1944.
