| Re: Ukraine and Belarus, the US State Department's version is at http://www.state.gov/r/pa/ho/pubs/fs/55407.htm
"Stalin had originally requested seats for all sixteen Soviet Socialist Republics, but at Yalta this request was turned down, and the compromise was to allow Ukraine and Byelorussia into the United Nations. The United States originally had countered Stalin's proposal with the request to allow all fifty American states into the United Nations, a suggestion that encouraged Stalin to agree to the compromise." |