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From harvard here. He is the professor of ukrainian history and the director of the Ukraine Ukrainian Research Institute at harvard. As i mentioned this morning, he has been on our list for a long time and we have finally found the right time to bring him down here to enlighten us. His many titles include, the last empire, the final days of the soviet union. The cars act myth. And probably my favorite titled book, forgotten pastures of the eastern front. And of course, yalta, the price of peace, which he will be speaking on now. Ladies and gentlemen, doctor serhii plokhii. [applause] mr. Collins, thank you very much for this introduction. Thanks to the organizers of the conference for bringing me here and i also want to thank all of you because, coming from boston and thinking that with the weather the way it is today, you decided to come inside and listen to presentations like mine. I really appreciate that sacrifice. Thank you. The organizers really could not find a better time to ha
The political leaders in attendance. The National World War Ii Museum hosted the event. Greetings ladies and gentlemen, its a pleasure to see you here, probably all you are familiar faces because youre so loyal to our programming. We saw most of you in november. And we hope to see most of you in november and in between and september for our memory conference. Stephen had said that unfortunately that distiller had slipped on his way, but all three flights from burlington, vermont, were canceled to get him here yesterday. We are disappointed that we can get him here to present. I can tell you that we are fortunate to have one of the leaders in this field, to fill the breach, and enlighten us with the first panel of the day, gunter has been a friend since before we had eight building, not just a hotel but an actual museum. He goes back with nick mueller and stephen, all the way back to the early days as a master student of theirs, and went to harvard to obtain his ph. D. Then came back ho
Harvard. He is the professor of ukrainian history and the director of the Ukrainian Research institute at harvard. As i mentioned this morning, he has been on our list for a long time, and we have finally found the right time to bring him down here to enlighten us. His many titles include the final days of the soviet union, and probably my favorite titled book, forgotten bastards of the Eastern Front. And of course yalta, the price of peace, which he will be speaking on now. Ladies and gentlemen dr. nb ffn plokhy. Mr. Collins, thank you very much for this introduction. Thanks to the organizers of the conference for bringing me here and i also want to thank all of you because coming from boston and thinking the weather like it is today decided to come inside and listen to presentations like mine, i really appreciate that sacrifi sacrifice. Thank you. The organizers really couldnt find a better time to have a conference like that given that we are really having this symposium 75 years al
The ukraine. This is part of the symposium, marking the anniversary of the yalta talks with frank lynn roosevelt and Joseph Stalin. Welcome back, ladies and gentlemen, for our next event. Its more or less the keynote of the day because it is the talk of the yalta conference though all of the sessions will be wonderful. We have sergei plotke here from harvard. He is the mehelo professor of the ukrainian history and the professor of the Ukrainian Research institute at harvard. His as i mentioned this morning he has been on our list for a long time and we have finally found the right time to bring him down here to enlighten us. His many titles include the last empire and the final days of the soviet union and the kosik myth and probably my favorite titled book forgotten bastards of the Eastern Front and think, yalt a t , the price of peace which he will be speaking on now. Ladies and gentlemen, dr. Sergei plotke. [ applause ]speaking on now. Ladies and gentlemen, dr. Sergei plotke. [ appl