Argonauts

Argonauts were a band of heroes in Greek Mythology.   In 1945 in the black sea region, the leaders of the US, UK, and the Soviet Union met to discuss the final phase of the World War II against Germany.  This conference was codenamed ‘Argonauts’ after heroes in Greek Mythology.

It was the ending phase of the World War II.  Germany was losing the war.  But Japan was still resisting the allied forces.  Winston Churchill thought that the Soviet Union should be roped in to defeat Japan.  Along with the US President, Franklin Roosevelt, Churchill discussed the strategy to defeat Japan with Joseph Stalin, the condition under which the soviets would enter the war against Japan.  They also discussed the future about Poland.

They further discussed that free elections were to be held in the eastern countries of Europe.  The national unity would be set up comprising both non-communists and communists.  This would be the governments of national unity.   However Stalin didn’t keep his promise and arrested non-communist polish leaders.  The eastern European countries became the soviet satellite countries.

Throughout the war, conferences after conferences were held and during the end of the war, many surprising changes took place.  The American president Roosevelt died in April 1945 and the vice-president Harry S Truman assumed the presidency and was in charge of the US at conferences.

Surprising changes took place in UK too.   Winston Churchill’s party lost the elections in the UK.  Britain had a new Prime Minister Clement Atlee.  Germany was defeated and Japan surrendered.  History kept changing.  After the defeat of the Nazi Germany, world experienced a different type of tension ‘cold war’.  For nearly half a century cold war took the world to the brink of world war III on two or three occasions.  History took another turn.  In the year 1991, the Soviet Union collapsed and America became the only super power.  Of late, in the latter part of the twenty-first century, Russia is slowly rising its head again to challenge the only super power America. Hence tension continues.

Need of the hour is fresh Argonauts to keep the world peace intact.