Strange they did not mention it, but these 3 are related by bloodline.
LB
Views on Yalta are all relative
October 03, 2005
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5744,16792412%255E2703,00.html
MAASTRICHT: The grandsons of World War II leaders Joseph Stalin,
Franklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill met yesterday for a debate, 60
years after their grandfathers' wartime meeting at the Yalta
Conference.
The three grandsons differed sharply about the war and what happened at
Yalta, the Ukrainian resort town where the leaders met in February
1945.
Yalta divided Europe into what quickly became postwar spheres of
influence for Western powers and the communist bloc.
"My grandfather had the highest regard for your grandfather as a
wartime leader," British author and politician Winston S. Churchill
told Yevgeny Dzhugashvili, Stalin's grandson, a retired colonel and
military historian.
The meeting occurred at Maastricht in The Netherlands at a conference
looking at Europe's progress in the 60 years since World War II.
But Churchill "was concerned what would be the fate of Europe with the
Red Army on its doorstep and at its throat", his grandson said.
Mr Dzhugashvili said the three grandfathers were friendly personally,
but in fact Stalin viewed the US and Britain as implacable enemies.
"They didn't have allies, only colonial interests," he said. "Danger
united them. As soon as the war was over, Churchill wanted to start a
war against the Soviet Union."
Curtis Roosevelt, the grandson of Franklin D. Roosevelt, said the
decisions made at Yalta were mostly about realpolitik after the late
entry of the US into the war.
"Nobody got what they wanted from Yalta except the Russians, who were
in a position to get it," said Mr Roosevelt, a former UN diplomat.
"FDR had failed in his effort to get America behind the war effort
until Pearl Harbour, although he was convinced Hitler had to be
confronted. What he thought was: 'If Britain goes down, we're next,"'
he said.
Mr Dzhugashvili said the divisions made at Yalta were fair, given the
sacrifices made by the Soviet Union in defeating Germany. He added that
not all the conference's decisions were military. "There were some very
good things in Yalta: The United Nations was created at Yalta," he
noted.
Mr Dzhugashvili said he felt "honoured" to be Stalin's grandson,
despite Stalin's reputation in the West as a murderous despot. "The
image of Stalin is very different in our country than the image of
Stalin here. They say he did this and that. But he did everything to
develop Russia."
He conceded that being Stalin's grandson "had some advantages". "For
instance, I didn't have to pass entrance exams to get into university,"
he said.
AP
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