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that the number of independent countries would soon reach a hundred, and that it could now be approaching two hundred? Or that the words "Europe" and "the world" would no longer be synonymous? And that the United Nations, established in an era with quite a different mentality, would become an essential factor in a new and extremely complicated world order?After Yalta, the world order went on changing, even in matters on which the conference had crossed all its t"s and dotted all its i"s. Who could have thought that three occupation zones would create a new country, West Germany, in 1949, and that another one, East Germany, would emerge out of the Soviet zone five months later? More than that, Berlin went to neither, and became its own entity. No one would have admitted in Yalta that things could have taken this turn. Likewise, it never occurred to the Big Three that the unexpected developments in Germany would give rise to a new, and rapidly developing, confrontation
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