Antipolitics [antikvár]

Peace: Anti-Yalta To find the main reason for today's threat of war, we must go back to the year 1945, to Yalta. It was there that a helpless Europe was divided; it was there that agreements were reached for military zones of occupation that would become political spheres of interest as well. Yalta gave birth to a system of international relations based upon a state of rivalry and equilibrium between the Soviet Union and the United States. Whether the three old gentlemen who met there knew it or not, the idea of the Iron Curtain was born at Yalta, a symbol of great-power logic. Three old men— Roosevelt, Stalin, and Churchill—decided the fate of hundreds of millions for decades to come, the hundreds of millions having to respect their decision. What a dirty trick of history! The allies who were defending mankind from fascist inhumanity hastened, on the very eve of victory, to strike an imperialist bargain, a pact between Anglo-Saxon and Soviet imperialism. They were able to do it because they commanded the biggest battalions, and went ahead and did it because—despite all the universalist rhetoric—nationalism, the ideology of the expansive nation-state, impelled them to. They thought it their historic right as victors to dictate the terms of peace. They made the mis-