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Proceedings from a roundtable discussion on the 1945 Yalta Conference between the US, Britain, and Russia. The historical background to the Yalta Conference is sketched, and the roundtable participants with direct experience at the Conference reminisce about the roles and events there. The Conference helped to mobilize the anti-Hitler and anti-militarist Japan forces and laid the groundwork for the post WWII order. The Conference participants took a realistic approach to many issues, as evidenced by the Declaration of Liberated Europe, agreements on the Polish border, ending the war in the Far East, and the creation of the UN. Not all Yalta decisions are still relevant, and there are attempts nowadays to discredit the Conference as damaging to some nations, eg, Japan still disputes territorial division of the South Sakhalin and Kuril Islands. It is ironic that criticism of the Yalta Conference is not accompanies by criticism of Germany for starting two world wars. Whatever was done wrong at Yalta was done within a compromise between the three nations and cannot solely be attributed to Stalin.