MP2002-433 Former President Truman Discusses His Difficulty with Stalin at Potsdam

In this Screen Gems out take with intermittent sound, former president Harry S. Truman discusses how the Russians would not keep their agreements, which made the negotiations at the Potsdam Conference very difficult. Mr. Truman recounts how Queen Victoria had trouble with the Russians in the days of the Czar. They had hoped the Bolsheviks would be better at keeping their agreements, but they were not. He claimed that Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin broke 16 Yalta Conference agreements and 32 Potsdam Conference agreements. This item is from the Screen Gems Collection. The Screen Gems Collection consists of outtakes created during the production of the film series, “Decision: The Conflicts of Harry S. Truman“ which aired on television in 1964 and 1965. This item is in the public domain. Please credit: Screen Gems Collection, Harry S. Truman Library. This film is part of the Motion Picture series at the Truman Library. Please see this link for the National Archives Catalog record: https://ca