Photo: U.S. Signal Corps, Jalta, 1945
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February 1945, Yalta
This article is part of the intervention Liberation 1945 – Open Ending, Fragile Future.
The Allies met several times during the Second World War to discuss the post-war world order. At the Moscow Conference in 1943, they agreed on matters such as the re-establishment of Austria. At the Yalta conference in February 1945, the United States, the United Kingdom and the Soviet Union agreed on the ‘dismemberment’ of Germany and the charter of the future United Nations. Stalin was working towards a communist Europe. And so, in a resort town in the Crimea, a new world order was thrashed out in which Austria would come to lie at the edge of an ‘Iron Curtain’ that would divide Europe.
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