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Stalin: After Dark

Behind the Bastards

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Stalin, Gotcha, and the Tsar

Stalin started drinking again after in like 43 and it becomes very clear that he is off the wagon. In a December 1943 visit by Charles de Gaulle to Moscow, de Gaulle is sort of the exiled leader of France at this point. Stalin chugged champagne and took over the job of toasting from Molotov who was the actual diplomat. He cheered Roosevelt and Churchill who weren't in attendance and ignored de Gaulle which is great diplomacy.

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