Forrest TanakaToday marks the 81st anniversary of the #YaltaConference, when Roosevelt, Churchill, and Stalin met to discuss the final defeat of Nazi Germany. Already very sick at Yalta, Roosevelt wouldn’t live to see Germany’s surrender.
It occurred to me that Truman gave Roosevelt explicit credit for his role in the war with Germany. Reagan never gave Carter credit for negotiating the release of the Iranian hostages even though Reagan did literally nothing to achieve that. You could fairly say it's because Truman and Roosevelt were from the same party while Reagan and Carter were from different ones, but I think that makes Reagan look quite petty.
The Yalta Conference Was More Than a Victors’ Feast
In February 1945, the leaders of the United States, the Soviet Union, and the UK hammered out the fate of postwar Europe in a bombed-out resort on the Black Sea. Seventy-five years later, how have their decisions held up?
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