Word: yalta
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Next year he became the first naval aviator named to the U.S. Military Mission to Moscow, and there he got a good look at his future enemy. "I think we have the Japanese beaten," he wrote to Kathryn at the time of the Yalta Conference. "I hope we don't let the Russians in. We don't need them." (And in they came, ultimately to turn over Manchuria to the Chinese Communists.) Grand Strategy. Don Felt's peacetime posting to the National War College worked a great change in his outlook...
Publication of Yalta Papers: They should come in a loose-leaf binder so you can add new betrayals as they come along...
...members of the Romanov family to escape the brutal murders by the Bolsheviks of Nicholas, his children and relatives in 1918; of pneumonia; at Hampton Court. England. When the Bolsheviks came to power. Britain's King George V sent the dreadnought Marlborough to Yalta to carry the grand duchess and her family to safety in England. Her eldest daughter Irene married Prince Yusupov, who was one of the assassins of Rasputin...
Close after the 15th anniversary of the fateful Yalta Conference, U.S.S.R. bureaucrats changed the name of Yalta's main thoroughfare from the just plain Russian word Bulvarnaya (i.e., Boulevard Street) to Roosevelt Boulevard...