Abstract
Host Peter Krogh discusses the repercussions of the Yalta Conference with Zbigniew Brzezinski.
Description
40 years after Roosevelt, Churchill and Stalin signed the Yalta agreement, former National Security advisor Zbigniew Brzezinski joins moderator Peter Krogh to discuss its legacy and the shaping of U.S. foreign policy toward Eastern Europe. In 1945, the Yalta agreement legitimized a sphere of Soviet influence in the eastern block states. But, according to Brzezinski, the resistance to soviet control in Hungary, Czechoslovakia and Poland, among other states, forces the Kremlin to decide how much longer it can maintain the legacy of Yalta. With Eastern European countries continually rejecting the systems grafted on to them by force, Brzezinski sees a unified Europe in the future. But, he prophetically warns that the collapse of the Soviet Union and unification will not bring utopia to the region, nor even a unified foreign policy
