There's A Myth That Roosevelt Gave Stalin

I Always Read Everything On The Desks Of People I Went To See In Moscow, London, Paris I Found It Quite Useful.

Poland, Of Course, Was The Key Country. I Remember Stalin Telling Me That The Plains Of Poland Were The Invasion Route Of Europe To Russia And Always Had Been, And Therefore He Had To Control Poland.

We Both Agreed That Stalin Was Determined To Hold Out Against The Germans. He Told Us He'd Never Let Them Get To Moscow. But If He Was Wrong, They'd Go Back To The Urals And Fight. They'd Never Surrender.

Roosevelt Was Determined To Stop Stalin From Taking Over Eastern Europe. He Thought They Finally Had An Agreement On Poland. Before Roosevelt Died, He Realized That Stalin Had Broken His Agreement.

We Became Convinced That, Regardless Of Stalin's Awful Brutality And His Reign Of Terror, He Was A Great War Leader. Without Stalin, They Never Would Have Held.