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A Divided Europe: The Future of Yalta

By Zbigniew Brzezinski
Winter 1984/85
Summary: 

Yalta is unfinished business. It has a longer past and it may have a more ominous future than is generally recognized. Forty years after the fateful Crimean meeting of February 4-11, 1945, between the Allied Big Three of World War II, much of our current preoccupation with Yalta focuses on its myth rather than on its continuing historical significance.

Zbigniew Brzezinski was Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs from 1977 to 1981. He is currently Professor of Government at Columbia University and Senior Adviser to the Center for Strategic and International Studies at Georgetown University. His most recent book is Power and Principle. Copyright (c) 1984 by Zbigniew Brzezinski.

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