Hi, I'm interested in Yalta conference and what geopolitical aims Stalin achieved and how it influenced USSR in few decades (1953-1970.
According to Mackinder theory of heartland and sea power struggle and his view of crucial control of eastern Europe for wider command of the Heartland (who controls eastern Europe rules the Heartland; who rules the Heartland rules the world Island; and who rules the World Island rules the World.) How it happened that USSR at the end of the war and after it... established satelite countries in eastern Europe couldn't dominate so much in world affairs? (USSR was the first class superpower as USA although she hadn't had signifance in foreign affairs that much like USA). Or should have USSR breached even more Ocean realm? What was the USSR navy role? How it changed? In the begining it was only on tactic level (not on strategy level). What was the dividends of Yalta conference besides taking more lands, access to seas in Baltic, Black seas and in far eastern lands (Kuril islands)? And also besides UN organization?
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Professor Edouard Husson did a speech on the subject hosted by Institute of Democracy and Cooperation which he outlined whats Stalins objectives where and who started the Cold war.
http://www.idc-europe.org/showerInformation.asp?Identificateur=93
Others have wrote about this before how towards the end of WW2 the British and US army intellegence recruited SS affiliated nationalist devisions in various Eastern European states to launch attacks against Soviet forces and destabilise the USSR.
STALIN'S WARS: From World War to Cold War, 1939-1953 by Geoffrey Roberts
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Stalins-Wars-World-Cold-1939-1953/dp/0300112041
During World War II, the Nazis created 37 divisions of Waffen Schutzstaffel (Waffen SS) of which only 12 were comprised exclusively by Germans [1] . Most of the members of the divisions were recruited among the so-called «Aryan» populations of the occupied or annexed countries. Although the Latvians were not all considered «Aryan», they were massively recruited. Out of 900,000 Waffen SS, almost 150,000 were Latvians thus being the largest foreign contingent while their country, Latvia, only had two million inhabitants. The Latvians were mainly placed in the 15th Infantry Division, which was the most decorated non-German Waffen SS unit. It was them who entrenched themselves in Berlin and engaged in the last military actions of the Third Reich.
The Latvian SS did not fight to defend their country but mainly against the Resistance in Russia and Belarus. Most of them were volunteers, although, in 1944, they were joined by some recruits who had been forced to enlist.
On the other hand, other Latvians - nearly 130,000 - enlisted to fight against the Axis (Hitler’s Germany, Mussolini’s Italy and Japan). Most of them fought in the Red Army that liberated their country from Nazism. After the negotiations among the Allies, Latvia, like other Baltic states, was absorbed by the Soviet Union.
Even before the end of World War II, the British secret services recruited agents among the Nazi war criminals (specially members of the Arajs Kommando) to fight Communism and infiltrated them in Sweden with the help of the SMT, the local secret service. Thus, an SS unit was formed by 1,500 men under the command of Colonel Osis, aiming at launching an attack against the Soviets. However, this idea was abandoned after the Nuremberg Trial labeled the Waffen SS and all its sections as «criminal organizations». In 1949, these agents were transferred to Hamburg (to the German zone occupied by the British) where they would be trained by the MI6 - British Secret Intelligence Service - («Jungle Operation»). The «best» elements received an additional training in Great Britain. They soon became part of what would become NATO’s «stay-behind» network, jointly directed by Great Britain and the United States [2]. Several parachuting and infiltration operations in espionage and sabotage missions took place but they all failed, causing a cruel repression by the Soviets. Eventually, this method was abandoned in 1952 when it was replaced by psychological operations.
Those networks remained active during the entire Cold War period. In 1997, Germany revealed that it was still giving pensions to 50,000 former SS or their rightful successors, spread around the world. Thus, Reinhard Heydrich’s widow (he was the architect of the «final solution») or Heinz Barth (responsible for the massacre of Oradur-sur-Glane) continue to receive salaries from the German government in spite of their crimes
http://www.voltairenet.org/article30079.html
The Fall of the Berlin Wall
By WILLIAM BLUMWithin a few weeks many of the Western media can be expected to turn on their propaganda machines to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the tearing down of the Berlin Wall, November 9, 1989. All the Cold War clichés about The Free World vs. Communist Tyranny will be trotted out and the simple tale of how the wall came to be will be repeated: In 1961, the East Berlin communists built a wall to keep their oppressed citizens from escaping to West Berlin and freedom. Why? Because commies don't like people to be free, to learn the "truth". What other reason could there have been?
First of all, before the wall went up thousands of East Germans had been commuting to the West for jobs each day and then returned to the East in the evening. So they were clearly not being held in the East against their will. The wall was built primarily for two reasons:
The West was bedeviling the East with a vigorous campaign of recruiting East German professionals and skilled workers, who had been educated at the expense of the Communist government. This eventually led to a serious labor and production crisis in the East. As one indication of this, the New York Times reported in 1963: "West Berlin suffered economically from the wall by the loss of about 60,000 skilled workmen who had commuted daily from their homes in East Berlin to their places of work in West Berlin." (New York Times, June 27, 1963, p.12)
During the 1950s, American coldwarriors in West Germany instituted a crude campaign of sabotage and subversion against East Germany designed to throw that country's economic and administrative machinery out of gear. The CIA and other US intelligence and military services recruited, equipped, trained and financed German activist groups and individuals, of West and East, to carry out actions which ran the spectrum from terrorism to juvenile delinquency; anything to make life difficult for the East German people and weaken their support of the government; anything to make the commies look bad.
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