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
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