From 4 to 11 February 1945, when the Second World War was still raging in Europe and Asia, Roosevelt, Churchill and Stalin met at the seaside resort of YALTA, in Crimea, to prepare for the world after the war. The fates of both Germany and Poland were of course the focal point of this new inter-allied conference, a conference to which France was not invited. The decisions that the three Great Powers took there  proved crucial for the future of Europe: the Allies agreed notably on the dividing up of Germany and Berlin into four occupied zones and the setting up of a new international organisation of united nations (the UN). Above all, the USSR’s borders were adjusted at the expense of Poland, Germany and Japan and a Polish government was established based on the (Communist) committee in Lublin and not the (legitimate) government in London. 

To remember these events, the Embassy of the Republic of Poland in Brussels and LeCollège Belgique are organising a seminar entitled ‘February 1945, the Yalta Conference. The Geopolitics of Disaster for Poland and Europe‘. 

>>> The conference will be in French. The programme and practical information can be found on the French version of our site!