Another Yalta Agreement would condemn Ukraine to a grim fate

Sergey Radchenko is the Wilson E. Schmidt Distinguished Professor at the Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs, Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies. His new book, To Run the World: The Kremlin's Cold War Bid for Global Power is a finalist for the 2025 Lionel Gelber Prize, presented by the Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy. For a week in February, 1945, Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin hosted the U.S. president Franklin D. Roosevelt and British prime minister Winston Churchill at Yalta, Crimea, to discuss their joint plans for the postwar order. Their agreement ratified Soviet control…