February 3, 1945. Two powerful leaders of the democratic world, Roosevelt and Churchill, arrived at the villas near the Black Sea resort of Yalta. They called themselves Argonauts, who made it to the Black Sea coast to take the golden fleece from a dragon that had never slept. The golden fleece was supposed to be the end of the war, and the dragon was the owner of the estate, Joseph Stalin. This fateful meeting determined the strategy of victory over Germany and Japan. However, for years there have been fierce disputes around the consequences of the Yalta conference: did this start the Cold War? Did the insistence on joining the USSR to the war with Japan meet American interests? Who sold Eastern Europe? Could Western leaders really change the course of history in Yalta? Based on recently declassified Soviet documents, unpublished diaries, letters and minutes of meetings, Sergei Plokhy not only gives answers to these questions, but also puts new, no less acute and provocative.