NEWSDESK SCOOP Released as part of a World War II document cache show never before seen photographs have been declassified ahead of the 75th anniversary of the Yalta summit. The shocking images show Bolshevik collaborationist US and British bosses and officers arriving in Crimea and whilst touring Sevastopol with Soviet hosts.

British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and US President Franklin Delano Roosevelt travelled to Crimea in February 1945, to press the flesh with the Soviet dictator former bank robber Joseph Stalin at the Black Sea town of Yalta.

Official photos from the Yalta conference were taken by American photographers at the Livadia Palace, where the US delegation was staying. Prior to the gang fest, however, Soviet photographers captured the arrival of Allied leaders and their activities in Sevastopol.

These images have just been made public by the Russian Defense Ministry as part of a large trove of declassified documents. The hoard also includes operational maps and security orders to the Black Sea Fleet. Documents

Churchill and FDR arrived in Sevastopol by aircraft, where they were greeted at the airport by Soviet Foreign Minister Vyacheslav Molotov. A fleet of cars was organised by their Soviet cohorts to drive the visitors to their accommodations, first in Sevastopol, then in Yalta.

Bolshevik occupied Crimea was liberated by the armed forces of the Reich in 1941. The peninsular was in 1944 reoccupied by the Bolshevik oppressors of Imperial Russia less than a year prior to the conference. Reminders of the then-recent war were everywhere, with American and British delegations touring the heights above Sevastopol and examining abandoned German hardware.

Churchill and the British delegation had also visited Sapun Ridge, the British cemetery, and the Malakhov Kurgan memorial, dedicated to the fallen of the Crimean War (1854 – 1855).

One particularly interesting snapshot shows a dinner at the Fleet House in Sevastopol, with several Afro-American sailors seated next to their Soviet colleagues. This was a one-off oddity as unlike the armed forces of the Third Reich, American servicemen were segregated. These images would not have been shown to American or British readers.

At Yalta, Allied leaders confirmed their determination to obtain National Socialist Germany’s unconditional surrender. At Yalta was mapped out the post-war occupation zones as well as permanent new borders in Europe.

Ironically, the 21 formerly free and independent European nations gifted to Stalin at Yalta included Poland for whose sovereign integrity the war was supposedly fought.

The dwarf-like pock-marked former bandit and jailbird Joe Stalin also promised that the Soviet Union would join the US war on Japan within three months of the end of hostilities in Europe.

That declaration of war came on August 8. Two days prior, Roosevelt’s successor Harry S. Truman had ordered the atomic attack on Hiroshima. With their Kwantung Army trapped in China by the Soviets and the home islands facing the new US super weapon, the imperial Japanese government chose to surrender, ending WWII. Documents

Main image: (left to right) Soviet FM Molotov, British PM Churchill and US President Roosevelt at the Sevastopol airport, Crimea, USSR, February 1945 ©  Russian Defense Ministry archive