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Mountains of books and many films have been written about the Yalta Conference the meeting of Stalin Roosevelt and Churchill which took place in February 1945 and determined the fate of the postwar world It would seem that everything has been known about these events for a long time But only relatively recently thanks to the research of the famous Russian historian William Pokhlebkin we became aware of the details of a grandiose culinary action a series of banquets that accompanied the negotiations of the allies in the devastated Crimea that difficult still military winter For obvious reasons these feasts could not get into the field of view of the newsreelers of that time But miraculously preserved materials give us the opportunity to feel their scale and specific atmosphere No one says to see And no one claims that the materials are documentary