Old School. As Trump and Putin decide the fate of weak countries by Stalin and Churchill's notes

But here are the attempts themselves to negotiate at the expense of someone, and even without the participation of the object of negotiations in the negotiations - the case is ordinary, everyday. The strong always did about the weak. Immediately, the fate of Czechoslovakia, which in 1938 in Munich was decided without the participation of Czechoslovakia itself, falls. And in October 1944 in Moscow, the famous "Interest Agreement" appeared in Moscow between Churchill and Stalin.

Here's how Churchill himself describes her in his memoirs: ". . . a business atmosphere has been created, and I stated:" Let's settle our affairs in the Balkans. Your armies are in Romania and Bulgaria. We have interests, missions and agents there. We will not quarrel because of the little things.

As for England and Russia, do you agree to occupy a 90 percent in Romania, so that we also occupy a 90 percent in Greece and in half - in Yugoslavia? Interest - 10 percent of Yugoslavia - 50/50 percent of Hungary - 50/50 percent of Bulgaria: Russia - 75 percent others - 25 percent I passed this leaf of Stalin, which by this time was already listened to a small pause. Did these issues that are vital to millions of people as if they were an impromptu? Let's burn this piece of paper.

"" No, leave it to yourself, "Stalin said. " This is how the fate of the post -war world was decided. Later, at the conference in Yalta, the Allies gave Poland, Czechoslovakia and other countries of the Central and Eastern Europe of the USSR. And Greece went to Britain then.

By the end of the war, the Greek guerrilla army of Elas, who truly fought with the Nazis, and in which there were many communists, had more than 100,000 soldiers and by the fall of 1944 released all of Greece from the German troops. Immediately after the conclusion of an informal "interest agreement", the British took up the Greek guerrillas.

In Athens, a real war between yesterday's "arms brothers" began, about 4,000 people were killed, tens of thousands of guerrillas were arrested and imprisoned in concentration camps. Britain had to shoot divisions from the Italian front to counteract the Trotskyists, as the Partisan Churchill called. The actions of Britain were condemned by its closest allies - France and the United States. But Stalin was silent, not stopping his ideological partners. So nothing new on earth.