Yalta 1945 - The Prelude to the Cold War by Major Gordon Corrigan MBE
The Yalta Conference, eight days in February 1945, shaped the world for the next fifty years and left a legacy that we live with still. It was the last conference of the ‘big three’ - Stalin, Churchill and Roosevelt - before the end of the Second World War. The Russians were fifty miles from Berlin, the British and Americans 375 miles. The aim of the conference was to decide the final course of war and to agree post war arrangements. The British and Americans had failed to agree a common agenda, whereas Stalin knew exactly what he wanted - and got most of it.
This is the first of two fascinating lectures dealing with the Cold War, presented by our expert guest speaker, Major Gordon Corrigan MBE.
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Video credits:
Host: Natasha Baker (Marketing Manager at Golden Eagle Luxury Trains)
Guest Speaker: Major Gordon Corrigan MBE (gordoncorrigan.com/)
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awesome video Natasha. appreciated
@goldeneagleluxurytrains5191
3 жыл бұрын
Thank you for watching! We are so pleased you enjoyed it.
This guy is a good lecturer-charisma
@ about 13:30 - didn't the Litvinov achieve US recognition for the USSR? Or did the speaker mean 1933 not 1993?
Fortunately i was able to visit before Putin took it over, i was interested as the official photographer was from my home town and he took my pictures when i was young. A lovely place such a pity we can't visit now as just like when the cold war was on.
@georgea.567
2 жыл бұрын
You can still visit.
I hear my grandfather was a navigator or pilot for the yalta conference. That means my family helped start the cold war... Hmmm that's some karma, I don't believe he made any officer decisions, luckily.
I find it a bit icky how he defends the bombing of Dresden, but overall great lecture!
@goldeneagleluxurytrains5191
2 жыл бұрын
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@marioksoresalhillick299
9 ай бұрын
Okay, I see with more information how the major criticism of the bombing of Dresden has often derived from neo-Nazi propaganda. Would not completely justify it, but it seems much more justifiable than I thought previously.
@marioksoresalhillick299
9 ай бұрын
(Neo-Nazi propaganda unwittingly spread through kurt vonnegut in slaughterhouse five, which I have yet to read though I desire to.