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Whether this speech was ever given by Stalin is still the subject of dispute by historians. According to Viktor Suvorov's book Icebreaker, Soviet historians laid special emphasis on claiming that no Politburo meeting took place on 19 August 1939, but the Russian military historian Dmitri Volkogonov has found the evidence that a meeting really took place on that day.
His father, Alfred Müller, was a bank teller who changed the family's surname to "Mueller-Stahl". [1] [2] The rest of the family moved to Berlin while his father fought on the Eastern Front in World War II. [1] Mueller-Stahl was a concert violinist while he was a teenager and enrolled at an East Berlin acting school in 1952. [1]
It was delivered to Stalin on August 15 at 18.00 by US Ambassador Laurence Steinhardt and British Ambassador Sir Stafford Cripps. They handed over identical copies signed by Roosevelt and Churchill. Stalin immediately dictated a reply for presentation to the ambassadors giving his agreement to the proposal. An announcement on Radio Moscow said: [3]
Historians have debated whether Stalin was planning an invasion of German territory in the summer of 1941. The debate began in the late 1980s when Viktor Suvorov published a journal article and later the book Icebreaker in which he claimed that Stalin had seen the outbreak of war in Western Europe as an opportunity to spread communist revolutions throughout the continent, and that the Soviet ...
The god of war is rumbling in the dark forests. Artillerymen, Stalin gave the order. Artillerymen, the motherland calls us. With the one-hundred-thousands of batteries, for the tears of our mothers, for our motherland — fire! Fire! Do you know, my mother, my darling, and all my friends, and the distant family who worry about me,
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Joan Plowright, perhaps the greatest Anglophone actor of the 20th century and the widow of Laurence Oliver, died on Thursday. She was 95. Plowright was a prominent actress of stage and screen in ...
Stalin then took Churchill over the situation on the Eastern Front along with plans to defend the Caucasus and block the German drive towards the Baku Oilfields. The discussions left Churchill feeling, as he explained in a telegram to Attlee, that there was 'an even chance' of the Caucasus being held but General Brooke 'will not go as far as this'.