The Yalta Conference was unique. The week...
Anyway, it was not Yalta that ushered in the half-century of U.S. superiority that is now coming to an end.Of no lesser interest is the story of the U.S.S.R. and Stalin. It is not that the U.S.S.R. was a rogue country before World War II - and what"s a "rogue country," for that matter? At any rate, it was a revolutionary country with the Internationale as its anthem; a power intent on undermining the influence of other strong nations and imposing Communism on them. It possessed many tools for this purpose - suffice to mention the sprawling, spying nongovernment organization known as the Comintern.
The Comintern was disbanded and the Internationale suppressed after the Yalta Conference. What the world got instead was a normal, recognized country with the right to protect its European and Asian borders with a buffer zone of friendly, neutral states. No one said at that time that they would become socialist. The U.S.S.R. was merely giving up its schemes of world revolution
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