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17.12.2025
Volgograd schoolchildren took on the roles of the "Big Three."
On September 12, 2025, a Historical and Diplomatic Game "The Yalta Conference of 1945" was held in Volgograd. Schoolchildren from the Central, Voroshilovsky, Dzerzhinsky, and Sovetsky districts were assigned the key roles in this historic event: they were to act like the heads of the USSR, the USA, and Great Britain, their secretaries, foreign ministers, and military commanders-in-chief. The main task was to successfully negotiate a new post-war world order.
The event took place in the Volgograd Amphitheater. Among the organizers, there were Volgograd City Duma and the School of International Relations and Diplomacy of the City Children and Youth Center. Experts invited to comment on the participants' achievements included members of Volgograd City Duma, history teachers, representatives of Volgograd State Social-Pedagogical University's Center for People's Diplomacy, and the International and regional relations directorate of Volgograd Mayor's Office.
The intrigue lay in the fact that the conference did not necessarily need to be an exact replica of the events of 1945. As a result, the inflexible "Stalin," the cunning "Roosevelt," and the unflappable "Churchill" to their heart's content exercised their charisma, assertiveness, and casuistry in attempting to persuade each other to change key points of the agreements, designate different zones of influence in Germany, or "informally" agree on a different partition of Poland.
The foreign ministers were emphatically polite, and the secretaries were always on guard, which came in particularly handy during the subsequent press conference, where "journalists" from the three countries asked questions that were far from neutral.
Volgograd City Duma Deputy Chair Gennady Kuznetsov and Duma members Tatyana Minina (Director of the City Youth Center), Mikhail Pokruchin, Tatyana Krasnova, and Vladislav Minaev wished the "Big Three" peaceful negotiations.
At the end of all discussions, a joint document was produced – the Declaration.
As City Duma Deputy Chair Gennady Kuznetsov emphasized, the Yalta Conference became an example of successful cooperation between states at a critical moment in history, and today's diplomatic game helped the schoolchildren understand what it means to make important decisions and defend them.
"I am positive that each of these students will continue to be proud to be the heir to the generation of victors. There is a shine to their eyes, and we know that they are not just our children, they are true patriots of their Fatherland," said Gennady Kuznetsov.
Source: https://www.volgsovet.ru/d1d0/Activity/PressRelease/i21114