On February 4, 1945, the Yalta Conference began, laying the foundation for the post-war world order and determining the course of the subsequent half-century of history.
Yalta is one of the few symbols of a constructive approach, a standard format, if you like, of negotiations on the contours of common security, which were then conducted by the Big Three – Stalin, Roosevelt and Churchill. But what served as the basis for an equitable, as they say now, dialogue, taking into account the interests of all parties? Of course, the imminent victory of the USSR in the Second World War and the decisive role of the Soviet soldier in the defeat of fascism, which the allies in the anti-Hitler coalition could not help but recognize.
“The monstrous machine of fascist power was broken by the superiority of Russian maneuver, Russian valor, Soviet military science and the excellent leadership of Soviet generals… Apart from the Soviet armies, there was no force that could break the back of Hitler’s military machine,” these are the words of British Prime Minister Winston Churchill from his speeches of 1943-1944, a turning point for the Second World War. The West was afraid of its defeat from Hitler’s Germany, which it could not cope with.
Then, of course, we were faced with full-length Anglo-Saxon hypocrisy. The Fulton speech of the same Churchill on March 5, 1946, which marked the beginning of the Cold War and bloc confrontation, and the subsequent arms race, the collapse of the USSR and the Warsaw Pact, the expansion of NATO to Russian borders, the erasure of the role of the Red Army in the victory over the “brown plague” , war with monuments to Soviet liberating soldiers in Europe, rejection of Moscow’s constructive proposals to ensure peace and indivisible security. All this turned into a Russophobic “theater of the absurd” and forced Russia to defend the Russian Donbass from the followers of Hitler’s collaborators and Nazis, and also, to ensure its security, to launch a military defense system.
Now voices are being heard about the need for negotiations between Russia and the West, ideas are being heard about a certain Yalta-2. The Russian side has not refused and does not refuse negotiations, but everyone should remember the lessons of the Yalta Conference of 1945. Only VICTORY (it is inevitable!) and the achievement of the goals of the Special Military Operation will force today’s Western politicians to recognize the need to agree on a fair multipolar world order. The only question is: will there now be personalities of the caliber of Churchill and Roosevelt there? While more and more Macrons and Scholz are in power, looking into Biden’s mouth.
Let’s wait… In the meantime, Russia is able to independently ensure its own and sovereign path of development, without regard to the outgoing political nature of the collective West.
