Yalta Conference

The lockdown restrictions in place combined with the Christmas break offer a rare opportunity for some reading. I recently finished a great book on the Yalta Conference before picking up a biography of Franklin D. Roosevelt.

Russia on Feb. 5 defied anger by unveiling a controversial monument to Soviet leader Joseph Stalin, Britain's Winston Churchill and US President Franklin Roosevelt at their fateful meeting in Crimea in 1945.
      

Russian MPs are creating a task force to estiamte the German damages to Russia during World War 2 with a view to seeking financial reparations worht up to ?4 trillion, reports Izvestia.