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{{Cquote|With this shameful agreement as their authority, Russian [[KGB|MVD]] agents strode through the displaced-persons camps after the war and put the finger on thousands who had managed to escape the Soviet tyranny. These miserable victims were herded into boxcars and driven back to death, torture or the slow murder of the Siberian mines and forests. Many killed themselves on the way. Also under a Yalta agreement, the Russians were permitted to use German prisoners in forced labor as an item in '[[reparations]] account.' For such inhumanities there is no excuse.<ref>''Saturday Evening Post'', Editorial, April 11, 1953, pg. 12.</ref>}}
 
{{Cquote|With this shameful agreement as their authority, Russian [[KGB|MVD]] agents strode through the displaced-persons camps after the war and put the finger on thousands who had managed to escape the Soviet tyranny. These miserable victims were herded into boxcars and driven back to death, torture or the slow murder of the Siberian mines and forests. Many killed themselves on the way. Also under a Yalta agreement, the Russians were permitted to use German prisoners in forced labor as an item in '[[reparations]] account.' For such inhumanities there is no excuse.<ref>''Saturday Evening Post'', Editorial, April 11, 1953, pg. 12.</ref>}}
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Roosevelt told a joint session of the U.S. Congress upon his return that the Yalta  conference "marked the end of the system of unilateral action and exclusive alliance and [[spheres of influence]] and balances of power and all the other expedients that have been tried for centuries and have always failed." <ref>[http://www.ibiblio.org/pha/policy/1945/450301a.html Report to Congress by President Franklin D. Roosevelt On the Crimea Conference], March 1, 1945.</ref>  
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Roosevelt told a joint session of the U.S. Congress upon his return that the Yalta  conference "marked the end of the system of [[unilateral]] action and exclusive alliance and [[spheres of influence]] and balances of power and all the other expedients that have been tried for centuries and have always failed." <ref>[http://www.ibiblio.org/pha/policy/1945/450301a.html Report to Congress by President Franklin D. Roosevelt On the Crimea Conference], March 1, 1945.</ref>  
    
The ''[[New Republic]]'', whose editors included FDR speechwriter and Soviet spy [[Michael Straight]], published soon afterwards, "on the whole, the results at Yalta represent a substantial victory for Stalin." <ref>''New Republic'',  February 19, 1945, p. 243.</ref>
 
The ''[[New Republic]]'', whose editors included FDR speechwriter and Soviet spy [[Michael Straight]], published soon afterwards, "on the whole, the results at Yalta represent a substantial victory for Stalin." <ref>''New Republic'',  February 19, 1945, p. 243.</ref>
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