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Did the Yalta Conference Really Divide Europe? - The Myth of the Secret Map and the Division of Postwar Europe | Sleepy Facts About History
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Most people who have heard of the Yalta Conference carry a single mental image: three men in heavy coats sitting around a table, drawing a line across Europe that would divide the continent for the next half-century. It is a clean, almost cinematic story, but it is fundamentally wrong. This episode replaces that familiar myth with a more accurate and interesting account of two conferences, five months apart, that managed an alliance already losing its common enemy.
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