On 4 February, the Yalta Conference began in the Crimea to decide how Germany and other occupied lands would be treated when final victory was achieved. At the conference Roosevelt, Churchill and Stalin agreed that their three countries, plus France, would occupy Germany and that democratic elections would be held in all occupied countries. This facet of the conference bore particularly on Poland, whose invasion by Germany had precipitated the war, and for which Britain had maintained a government-in-exile in London, whereas the Soviet Union sponsored a communist “committee of national liberation” in Lublin. The conference agreed to establish a Polish government of national unity which would hold free elections, an agreement subverted by Stalin who was secretly intent on ensuring a…

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Citation: Richert, Lucas Paul. "Yalta Conference". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 12 September 2008 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/stopics.php?rec=true&UID=5554, accessed 26 November 2024.]