As brilliant as FDR was as a wartime commander, on this one he gets, in my book, he gets a grade F.” But they lived from 1945 up until 1987-88 in stark terror and death and destruction. He had no claim on them and we let people live in agony and horrors for fifty-some-odd years until Reagan freed the Eastern European countries and the Warsaw Pact countries. We had no right to give them up to Stalin. We gave up whole chunks of Eastern Europe. Jeffrey: “So, diplomatically, was Yalta a victory for Stalin?” And if you hit metal, then pull back.’ That was his philosophy: Always on offense, always advancing, especially after the German advance on the Soviet Union.” But he had a saying one time: He said, ‘If you stick the bayonet in and you hit mush, keep pushing farther. And why FDR agreed to it? I know he had staff around him that was soft on Stalin. We were supplying everybody with arms and foodstuffs.
Actually, we were fighting the Romanians, too. “I mean, look, for all intents and purposes, FDR was president of the world in April of 1945. And why they went there to be berated by Stalin is-I have no idea why. Of course, it was a dilapidated old villa left over from the czars. And it hadn’t been taken care of and it hadn’t been kept up. What happened there?”Ĭraig Shirley: “Well, that was of course, Yalta, which, you know, I always thought, Terry, why FDR agreed to travel ten thousand miles and live with-he and his staff-lousy accommodations, lousy housing. But back in February 1945, the leaders of the United States, Great Britain, and the Soviet Union met in the Crimea. Terry Jeffrey: “Hi and welcome to this edition of ‘Online with Terry Jeffrey.’ Our guest today is historian and author Craig Shirley, who has published numerous best-selling books including, ‘Rendezvous with Destiny: Ronald Reagan and the Campaign That Changed America,’ ‘Mary Ball Washington: The Untold Story of George Washington’s Mother,’ and ‘December 1941: 31 Days That Changed America and Saved the World.’ Today, we are going to talk to him about his new book, ‘April 1945: The Hinge of History.’ Craig, in recent days, the Ukraine and the Crimean Peninsula have been in the news a great deal. In his interview with, Shirley talked about that global war and how it changed history: “We were truly involved in a global war,” said Shirley.
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