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for coexistence with the world. To prevent Moscow from gaining too much power, the Allies invented a muzzle for it - the United Nations, an updated version of the League of Nations, which granted the Big Three veto power in the issues of war and peace. This power was eventually expanded to two friendly victims of WWII - Chiang Kai-shek"s China, which was forced to retreat to a tiny strip of land after the rest was occupied by Japan, and Charles de Gaulle"s France, which had no land at all at the peak of the war. It did not occur to anyone in Yalta that China would ever turn Red with Moscow"s help. The new Communist China was kept away from the United Nations for some twenty-odd years.The abandonment of the Yalta resolutions went on. The United Nations was conceived as the victorious Allies" conference rostrum - a small organization of fifty countries. All other nations were colonies, and thus did not need to be reckoned with politically. Who would think at the time
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