Jul 7, 2017 | Latest, Podcast, Premium, Recent |
Stalin goes hard on the issue of German reparations but meets with pushback from Churchill, while Roosevelt can’t seem to make up his mind.
Jun 23, 2017 | Latest, Podcast, Premium, Recent |
So after they agreed on Poland, the rest of the February 9 plenary session is spent talking about Germany. Specifically – what to do with the Nazi big dogs. Previously secret British War Cabinet papers released on 1 January 2006 have shown that Churchill had...
Jun 15, 2017 | Free, Latest, Podcast, Recent |
We have a very special guest. Professor Serhii Plokhii is the Mykhailo Hrushevsky professor of Ukrainian history at Harvard University, where he also serves as the director of the Ukrainian Research Institute. He’s the author of quite a few award-winning books...
Jun 8, 2017 | Latest, Podcast, Premium, Recent |
Day 9 at Yalta! The official, famous photographs are taken, and someone worries that he’s going to be sent to the Gulag as a result. And the Polish question is finally settled to everyone’s relief. They can almost go home. Oh and there was no raping....
May 26, 2017 | Latest, Podcast, Premium, Recent |
May 18, 2017 | Free, Latest, Podcast, Premium, Recent |
At the end of a long day full of hard bargaining, The Big Three could still relax in one another’s company. In this episode we discuss the most important dinner of the conference.
May 12, 2017 | Latest, Podcast, Premium, Recent |
A deal was struck between FDR and Stalin: the Soviets will join the war with Japan in exchange for territorial acquisitions at Japan’s expense and the creation of a Soviet sphere of influence in northeastern China.
Apr 28, 2017 | Latest, Podcast, Premium, Recent |
The city of Dresden was the primary victim of the “zone of limitation” agreement reached at Yalta—one of the few direct outcomes of the military consultations held there. In early 1945 Dresden was one of the few major German centers to have escaped systematic Allied...
Apr 20, 2017 | Free, Podcast, Premium |
On Feb 7, the British Chiefs of Staff decided to take the day off to visit the site of the Battle of Balaclava, infamous for the “Charge of the Light Brigade” in 1854. Meanwhile, the Americans and the Soviet military commanders took the opportunity to talk...
Apr 7, 2017 | Podcast, Premium |
Conversation at Yalta turns to Poland’s borders. Stalin had a new proposal that would mean moving the southern part of the Polish-German border 200 kilometers west – into Germany, right up to the Oder & Neisse rivers. Which was actually giving Poland...
