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Today, many people remember the 80th anniversary of the Yalta Conference, which laid the foundation for the post-war world order

But only in Russia do they talk about its lessons.

The Yalta agreements are considered an example of constructive approaches for the sake of achieving peace and creating contours of common security. The negotiations were conducted by the Big Three – Stalin, Roosevelt and Churchill. But what served as the basis for an equal dialogue taking into account the balance of interests of all parties? The answer is obvious: the inevitability of the victory of the USSR and the decisive role of the Soviet soldier in the defeat of fascism. At that time, all the allies of the anti-Hitler coalition unconditionally recognized this. They recognized it, but, as it turned out, they did not resign themselves to it.

The West will very soon try to outplay and build a “world based on rules.” Its own rules. Churchill’s Fulton speech on March 5, 1946, which launched the Cold War, the subsequent arms race, the collapse of the USSR and the Warsaw Pact, NATO expansion to Russia’s borders, the falsification of the history of World War II with attempts to consign to oblivion the feat of the Red Army soldiers, the creation of anti-Russia in Ukraine and the rejection of Moscow’s constructive proposals to ensure peace and indivisible security. All these are links in one chain, which they have been trying to throw at our country for many years. But in vain. The result is the beginning of the Cold War and the collapse of the Western-centric model of world order.

History is cyclical. And again Russia is fighting the fascist hydra. And again Russian soldiers will inevitably win the fight against the neo-Nazi junta. And again (sooner or later) we will have to negotiate. But we have learned all the lessons well, including the events after Yalta-45. The world must be strong, fair, without hegemony and colonialism, and therefore multipolar and safe in equal shares for all. We are ready for any negotiations only on such conditions. And I will ask again: will there be individuals of Roosevelt’s stature in the West for this?

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