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The Night Stalin and Churchill Divided Europe: The View from Washington

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 August 2009

Joseph M. Siracusa
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Of the many fascinating episodes that punctuate the diplomatic history of World War II, few have intrigued scholars more than the secret Balkan spheres-of-action agreement worked out by Prime Minister Winston Churchill and Marshal Josef Stalin at the Anglo-Soviet conference (British code-named TOLSTOY) held in Moscow in the autumn of 1944. It was late in the evening of 9 October. In his first encounter with Stalin since the meeting of the Big Three at Teheran in 1943, Churchill, believing “the moment … apt for business,” appealed to the Soviet dictator to “Let us settle about our affairs in the Balkans.” Specifically, he went on, “We have interests, missions, and agents there. Don't let us get at cross-purposes in small ways.

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The Review of Politics , Volume 43 , Issue 3 , July 1981 , pp. 381 - 409
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Copyright © University of Notre Dame 1981

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