Crimean Conference

The Crimean Conference was held on 4-11 February 1945 in the resort town of Yalta in the Livadia Palace. This was a historic meeting of the leaders of the countries of the anti-Hitler coalition, whose joint efforts victoriously ended the Second World War. It consisted of the following states: the USSR, the United States and Great Britain. The Crimean conference was held at a time when hostilities were already taking place on the territory of Germany, and a ruthless struggle against the Hitler war machine was won.

The whole world followed these negotiations, as the Crimean Conference was solving pressing questions about the future arrangement of the post-war society. The anti-Hitlerite countries raised important questions, primarily about the unconditional surrender of Germany, and then about the new borders of states and spheres of influence. The Crimean Conference and its decisions will long be studied by historians. It was on her that the destiny of militant Germany was decided - the country, which, for a small historical period, unleashed two bloody wars.

The conference in Yalta made a historic decision to divide Germany into two separate and independent states, which implied radical changes in its political life based on democratic principles.

The pre-war territories occupied by the Third Reich had to be streamlined and maped new boundaries between states involved in the World War, and to determine the demarcation lines between the Allies.

This was agreed in Tehran, in particular, it was about the complete transfer of the USSR to all the territories of East Prussia, as well as the definition of zones of subordination in France. The decision was made to fully occupy Germany with the troops of the USSR, the United Kingdom and the United States, in addition, the boundaries of the zones of influence of each of the coalition participants, in particular, the borders between Poland and Germany, were determined. Poland before the Second World War was one of the largest countries in Central Europe. Afterwards, it lost part of the territories and moved to the west and north, significantly changing the pre-war outlines. The moment of revision of this question has come.

The creation of special procedures that would guarantee a new territorial order, especially with respect to the updated delimitation lines on the world map, has become topical. The issue of possible reparations was also raised, but in view of the lack of consensus among the allies, it was decided that the United Kingdom and the United States would return 50 percent of the reparations to the USSR. For the participation of the Soviet armed forces in the war against Japan with the consent of the coalition, the USSR annexed the Kuriles and, in addition, Southern Sakhalin. Discussion of all these issues included a conference in Yalta. Its participants declared their main goal - the destruction of German militarism and, especially, of Nazism.

Before the anti-Hitler community was the task of disarming the German armed forces, as well as strict control over its military and industrial potential. A separate issue was the retribution of the criminals of the war, they were to be deserved and justly punished. This was decided by the Yalta Conference. Decisions to destroy the Nazi Party forever, their inhuman laws, ideology and symbols from the new life of the German people were supported by all the participants in the coalition.

For the first time in Yalta, the advanced ideas of the League of Nations were actually realized. Such were the results of an important historic event called the Yalta Conference. Its decisions were fair and undeniable. Before the world progressive community the task was set to create such an interstate body that would prevent any attempts to change the new, newly established world. Thus, the ideology of the United Nations, modern, built on the humanity and equal rights of all living on Earth, was realized and started working.