ironically, it was the conclusion of a series of agreements between
the allies in the final phases of the war that led to the
reappearance of these centrifugal tendencies. the yalta accords of
the 揵ig three?(february 1945) and subsequent agreements defined,
in a veiled form, the postwar spheres of influence. presented
ostensibly as the foundation of a postwar peaceful settlement, they,
in actual fact, sowed the seeds of future rivalry at the global and
regional levels between russia and its western allies, and first of
all, the united states. |