City on the Black Sea, where Roosevelt, Stalin and Churchill met in 1945

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Great Livadia Palace was the venue for the Yalta conference, and had been opened as a museum devoted to the Conference, and an art gallery for contemporary Soviet painters and sculptors.

She plied the coast route round the Black Sea ports, from Tibesk in the north round to Yalta, and from there she stopped at the picturesque seaside resorts of Bukim, Talinin, Sebastopol.

She rode at anchor in the port of Yalta, and except for armed guards patrolling the decks there was no sign of life.

Britain and France had started World War II over Poland, but at Yalta Roosevelt cavalierly relinquished Poland to another totalitarian despot.

He supported enormous concessions to Stalin at Yalta, including turning over Poland to the USSR.

Alger Hiss at his side, Roosevelt sold out Eastern Europe at Yalta and promised Stalin three votes in the U.

Later, when Hiss was a senior official at the State Department, he traveled to the Yalta summit and was one of four American officials who journeyed on to Moscow.

Stalin had just come back from the Yalta Conference where he had been informed of the existence of the atomic bomb.

He looked as if he would have been right at home at the Yalta Conference, sitting with Roosevelt, Churchill, and Stalin.

Twenty miles beyond the border, the great motorway bridge reared up to cross the Elbe, where in 1945 the British, honorably obeying the rules laid down at Yalta, had halted their advance on Berlin.

This had been the contemporary counterpart of the Congress of Vienna or the Yalta Conference.

The dacha with the sea-blue tile roof was just outside Yalta, on the Crimean peninsula that jutted, squarish, tailed, south into the Black Sea.

The little village of Yalta nestles at the foot of an amphitheatre which slopes backward and upward to the wall of hills, and looks as if it might have sunk quietly down to its present position from a higher elevation.