Liberation: The Bitter Road to Freedom, Europe 1945-1950

Summarising the wartime discussions of Roosevelt, Churchill and Stalin, the author contrasts the sincere desire of Western leaders to restore freedom and sovereignty to the liberated countries with Stalin's cynical goal of installing a system of subordinate and satellite Communist states that w...

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Published in:The Times higher education supplement 2009 (1884), p.48
Main Author: Shukman, Harold
Format: Review
Language:English
Subjects:
Armed forces
Collaboration
War
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Summary:Summarising the wartime discussions of Roosevelt, Churchill and Stalin, the author contrasts the sincere desire of Western leaders to restore freedom and sovereignty to the liberated countries with Stalin's cynical goal of installing a system of subordinate and satellite Communist states that would secure the Soviet Union against its potential enemies in the capitalist world. [...] in those accounts, instead of collaboration, weak resistance movements and the brutality of the liberation, we find widespread resistance, Allied solidarity and the restoration of democracy.
ISSN:0049-3929