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The Big Three In the Second World War a picture was taken which made history. It showed the three leaders of the allied forces, the USA, Great Britain and the Soviet Union. Ever since that time, the image has been inseparably associated with the division of the world. It was and still is often published in the East as well as the West. Schoolbooks in many countries illustrate this topic with photographs taken at the end of the Yalta Conference or the previous conference in Tehran in 1943. Franklin D. Roosevelt, President of the United States, is usually sitting in the middle, flanked by Great Britain's Prime Minister Winston Churchill and the ruler of the Soviet Union, Josef Stalin. Due to the constant reappearance of the image in literature, schoolbooks and the media, but also owing to the term "The Big Three", the image is linked with the historic event. The motif is so famous that picture captions hardly need to provide additional information. The only important thing is that the association with the reorganization of the geopolitical system after World War II still functions. The way in which the Big Three present themselves in public, demonstrate their singleness of purpose, and thus give expression to their mutual will informs the impact of this image. It helped to legitimize the division of Europe. Thus began post-War history. |
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