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1945 YALTA ACCORDS WERE HISTORICAL IMPERATIVE - PUTIN

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MOSCOW, May 8 (RIA Novosti) - The 1945 Yalta Accords signed by the then leaders of the Soviet Union, the United States, and Great Britain were a historical imperative, Vladimir Putin said in a comment for the French newspaper Le Figaro.

It is no secret that many modern-day historians call into question the feasibility and fairness of the Yalta Accords. In the Russian President's view, however, those agreements formalized collective decisions aimed at destroying the roots of Nazism and rebuilding the post-war Europe. The Allies just had to share the responsibility for Europe's political and economic reconstruction, Putin said.

Speaking of the fate of the post-war Germany, the Russian President said that during the Yalta negotiations, the Soviet delegation had spoken firmly in favor of its being preserved as a sovereign and unified state. The Soviets were fighting against Nazism, but not against the German people, for whom they had no animosity.

The temporary division of the German state in two was prompted by the military, political and ideological contradictions of the Cold War era, Putin said.

Ahead of the 60th anniversary of the end of the Second World War in Europe, the Russian President has had a record-high number of interviews with foreign news media. He has answered more than 120 questions from foreign reporters.

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