RUSSIA: 60th ANNIVERSARY OF THE END OF WORLD WAR II. REPORT INCLUDES HISTORIC FOOTAGE OF THE NAZI SURRENDER AND THE ORIGINS OF THE COLD WAR

Yalta, on the Crimean Peninsula, was the site of the conference attended by the big three—Churchill, Roosevelt and Stalin—to divide up control of the liberated countries. They had previously agreed to wipe out Nazi Germany. Almost at the same time, opposing views on world territorial and economic division led to the start of the Cold War. Five months later, in Potsdam, the fragile alliance of the …