Tensions at yalta

tensions at yalta

• the Yalta conference appeared to give cause for great optimism

areas of agreements

• there appeared to be very clear areas of agreements between the east and the west

deteriorating realtionship

• however, the reality was that relations between Roosevelt and Churchill on one hand and Stalin on the other were already deteriorating

• disagreement quickly emerged over how the declaration on liberated Europe was interpreted and how it was to be applied specifically to Poland

• Stalin decided to reach the view that the communist government would stay in place , while Roosevelt viewed it in an entirely opposite way

source 3: from a conversation between Stalin ,Roosevelt and Churchill during the Yalta conference on 6 february 1945

• it is a question of security of the state not only because we are on Poland’s frontier but also because throughout history Poland has always been a corridor for attack on Russia

• it is sufficient that during the last thirty years our German enemy has passed through this corridor twice

• this is because Poland was weak

• it is in Russian interest as well as that of Poland be strong and powerful and in a position in her own and in our interests to shut the corridor by her own forces

• it is necessary that Poland be free, independent and powerful