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Episode Title: The World Divided — Yalta, The Big Three, and The Eight Days That Built The Cold War

Season 3, Episode 5 — The Decisions That Shaped the Western War

There is a famous photograph from the Yalta Conference.

Three men seated together in the February sunshine at a Black Sea resort. Churchill on the left, Roosevelt in the center, Stalin on the right. It looks like three men who have won a war together.

What the photograph doesn't show is that the man in the center has sixty-five days to live.

It doesn't show that the man on the left arrived calling the location the Riviera of Hades — and knew, with a clarity he couldn't openly express, that the country Britain had gone to war to defend in 1939 was about to be abandoned.

And it doesn't show that the man on the right had the Red Army positioned forty miles from Berlin, negotiating from a position of such overwhelming military strength that most of what he wanted was going to happen regardless of what the other two agreed to.

Eight days. February 4th to 11th, 1945. Three men in a gutted Crimean palace with failing plumbing and short beds. And the seeds of the Cold War planted by men who understood, to very different degrees, exactly what they were planting.

In this episode Amanda and Harry examine the specific leverage each man brought to the table, the agreements that were signed, the secret Pacific protocol that Congress was never told about, and what happened to every promise made at Yalta in the months and years that followed.

The people of Eastern Europe lived inside the outcome of those eight days for the next forty-five years.

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