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{top half}{illegible} let us falter! From Malta to Yalta! Let nobody alter! Winston S Churchill 1 February 1945
The 1945 Yalta Conference brought together President Franklin D Roosevelt, Prime Minister Winston Churchill and Premier Joseph Stalin. Prior to the conference, Roosevelt and Churchill met here in the Valletta Grand Harbour for preliminary discussions. While a number of decisions were made at Yalta, tensions over various issues laid the seeds for the Cold War.
{bottom half}The Malta summit of 1989 brought together US President George W Bush and USSR Premier Mikhail Gorbachev and marked the end of the Cold War.
The 1945 Yalta Conference brought together President Franklin D Roosevelt, Prime Minister Winston Churchill and Premier Joseph Stalin. Prior to the conference, Roosevelt and Churchill met here in the Valletta Grand Harbour for preliminary discussions. While a number of decisions were made at Yalta, tensions over various issues laid the seeds for the Cold War.
{bottom half}The Malta summit of 1989 brought together US President George W Bush and USSR Premier Mikhail Gorbachev and marked the end of the Cold War.