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Place at a crimean resort in ukraine. This talk is part of a World War Ii Museum symposium marking the 75th anniversary of the yalta talks between winston churchill, Franklin Roosevelt and Joseph Stalin. Welcome back, ladies and gentlemen. For our next event, it is more or less the key note of the day because it is the talk on the yalta conference, although all of the sessions will be wonderful. We have Serhii Plokhii here, the director of the ukrainian history and director of Research Institute at harvard. As i mentioned this morning, he has been on our list for a long time and we finally found the time to bring him down here to enlighten us. His titles include the last empire, thethe cossack myth, and the forgotten pastors of the Eastern Front, and yalta for peace. Ladies and gentlemen, dr. Serhii plokhii. [applause] mr. Collins, thank you very much for this introduction. Thanks to the organizers of the conference for bringing me here. I also want to thank all of you because carmen f
Serhii plokhii here, the director of the Ukrainian Research institute at harvard. As i mentioned this morning, he s been on our list for a long time and we finally found the time to bring him down here. His titles include the last the cossack the forgotten pastors of the eastern front, for peace. Ladies and gentlemen, dr. Serhii plokhii. [applause] plokhii thank you for the introduction. Thank you to the organizers for bringing me here. I also want to thank all of you , these coming from boston today, being as it is coming inside to listen to presentations like mine, i really appreciate that sacrifice. Thank you. The organizers really couldnt find a better time to have a conference like that, given that we are really having our symposium 75 years almost day today to the conference that took place in crimea back in february of 1945. And the conference that is still very much with us on many levels. 4 of this year, that was exactly the anniversary of the conference. Coverage,the media an
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