The Spectre of Yalta In February 1945, as Allied armies stood poised to enter Germany, Churchill, Roosevelt and Stalin met at Yalta to discuss the arrangements fo: the peace.
Notwithstanding the agreements made, the practical consequence of the Yalta conference was Russian subjugation of Eastern Europe, followed by the enforced separation of East and West which we have come to accept as our only guarantee of peace ana stability. But as the Soviet Union faces recurring and growing upheaval in its Eastern European empire, how much stability can the post-war architecture be said to have produced? Inthefirstoffour programmes charting the story of Soviet domination in Eastern
Europe, Michael Charlton looks at what was agreed at Yalta and why, and examines the events which were ignored at the time, but which are now vital to understanding the developments in Poland and the other countries of Eastern Europe.
Producer DAVID MORTON