A state without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation [Edmund Burke â Reflections on the Revolution in France] Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or the leopard his spots?
Introduction. The February 1945 Yalta Conference was the second wartime meeting of British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin and U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt. During the conference, the three leaders agreed to demand Germanyâs unconditional surrender and began plans for a post-war world.
What to do with Germany was also discussed at the Yalta Conference. It was decided to divide Germany into four separate zones of control, one each under the three Great Powers and France. Stalin wanted Germany to stay permanently divided, but Churchill said that a healthy Europe must include a prosperous Germany.