You have totally misread my entire post, Damian. Yalta was held in February 1945. Two months later, Roosevelt was dead. Stalin, for one, walked all over both Roosevelt and Churchill. For another, Churchill tried working behind FDR's back to maintain some sphere of influence in the Balkans, namely Greece. Churchill wanted to have allied troops go to the Balkans, but FDR refused.
However, at Yalta, FDR was not a well man, and did not have the ability to prevent what would happen. My post was hardly blatant American. Have you ever read the FDR/Stalin correspondence. There is no doubt that FDR thought he could get along with Stalin but no one is blaming Churchill for Yalta. Churchill was determined to save Greece as I stated above. Of course, by the summer of 45 Churchill would be out of power ..but Truman saw things differently. Oh, no doubt there was back-biting from all and everyone doing things behind the scenes but this is not to diminish that Churchill was a great leader ... I am no fan of FDR, by the way. FDR had ideas to bring in the Soviets to aid in Indian independence, but Churchill would not allow this - he described Indians as "beastly people with a beastly religion."
I think Churchill was a great leader and PM ... I would voted for him in 1945 .. I would never have voted for FDR .. or Truman for that matter.

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: I am not sure I would use the word mistakes.
: Britain, the USA and the Soviet Union were
: allies during the war, although I would use
: the word ally loosely for the Soviet Union.
: The SU had a plan - and it wanted a greater
: sphere of influence in Europe and Churchill
: -- and Churchill (Roosevelt was not a well
: man) allowed it to happen.
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: That's a blatant distortion of the
: truth,Marlene and a blatant pro-American
: bias if ever there was one.Roosevelt had all
: the power and held all the cards on the
: Western side at Yalta.Churchill was very
: much the junior partner amongst the three.
: Britain was exhausted,shattered and
: dependent on US goodwill for being at Yalta
: at all.Roosevelt and Stalin used to gang up
: on Churchill and laugh at him and tease him
: behind his back (sometimes to his
: face).Churchill was in no position to
: enforce his will about anything.He could
: only advise and try to influence events.But
: Roosevelt trusted Stalin more than Churchill
: did (he referred to him fondly as 'Uncle
: Joe') and dismissed any misgivings Churchill
: had about him as the ravings of an
: old-fashioned British imperialist.I would go
: as far as to say that Roosevelt even trusted
: Stalin more than he did Churchill!
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: Churchill may have acquiesced in helping to
: hand over Eastern Europe to Stalin's sphere
: of influence (they had little choice as
: Soviet troops were in occupation of most of
: it anyway) but Roosevelt was the one who
: called the shots and made the big decisions
: for them both.He may have been physically
: frail but his policy towards the Soviet
: Union had not varied from the moment he
: first regarded them as allies in 1941.
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: I am no particular fan of Churchill but I
: cannot stand back and let you try and pin
: the entire blame for the postwar Yalta
: Settlement on him alone! Utterly ridiculous
: and utterly untrue!
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