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.
But at Yalta, Roosevelt and Churchill largely acceded to Stalin's demands to annex the territory which in the Nazi-Soviet Pact he and Hitler had agreed to the Soviet Union controlling, including Kresy, and to carry out Polish population transfers (1944â1946) .