Stalin likes me better than you
http://books.guardian.co.uk/review/story/0,,1721917,00.html
Frances Stonor Saunders is intrigued by the uneasy correspondence
between Josef Stalin and FDR, My Dear Mr Stalin
Saturday March 4, 2006
The Guardian
My Dear Mr Stalin: The Complete Correspondence of Franklin D Roosevelt
and Joseph V Stalin
edited by Susan Butler
361pp, Yale, =A317.50
Joseph Stalin did not like to travel, which is ironic, given his
readiness to send millions of people on Homeric journeys of exile into
the outer reaches of the Soviet Union. A trip to Kuntsevo, his dacha
outside Moscow, was about as far as he was willing to venture. But, in
his wartime letters to Franklin D Roosevelt, Stalin gave the impression
that he was constantly on the move. "I have frequently to go to the
different parts of the front," he wrote in August 1943, fully two years
after his last such expedition.
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