According to Russia’s
diplomatic office, its archives contain one-of-a-kind documents related to the
Soviet Union’s foreign policy and diplomacy during World War II and the Great
Patriotic War.
MOSCOW, February 4.
/TASS/. Russia’s Foreign Ministry has released a collection of documents on the
1945 Yalta Conference of the Big Three, the first one in a series of such
collections compiled for the 75th anniversary of the Victory in World War II.
"To mark the
75th anniversary of the Victory, the Russian Foreign Ministry’s archive service
has compiled a series of subject-related collections of documents, which, we
hope, will be of great interest to scholars and the general public," the ministry
said on Tuesday. "The first such collection presents documents from the
Yalta (Crimean) Conference of February 4-11, 1945, a milestone event during
World War II’s final stage that outlined key areas of cooperation between the
allies on major military strategic and political issues of the post-war world
order."
"The process of
declassifying and digitizing the ministry’s archives continues to make these
documents accessible to scholars and the general public," the ministry
said.
According to Russia’s
diplomatic office, its archives contain one-of-a-kind documents related to the
Soviet Union’s foreign policy and diplomacy during World War II and the Great
Patriotic War (the Eastern Front during WWII where Russia fought Nazi Germany -
TASS). "Many of them have already been made public, even on the
Internet," Russia’s foreign affairs department said, adding that thousands
of these documents are available at agk.mid.ru and idd.mid.ru.
Tuesday marks 75
years since the beginning of the Yalta Conference of the Big Three. As World
War II in Europe was drawing to a close, precisely 70 years ago, the leaders of
the Soviet Union, the United States and Great Britain - Joseph Stalin, Franklin
D. Roosevelt and Winston Churchill - gathered at the seaside resort of Yalta,
in Crimea, which the Red Army had retaken from the Nazi occupiers several
months earlier. Despite the divergence in ideology, they forged a historical
compromise that would keep the peace in Europe up until the end of the 20th
century.
