77. Doc. 614 in DGFP, 12:996–1006; and doc. 667 in DGFP, 13:1077–78. See also DRZW, 4:360.
78. Krisztián Ungváry, The Siege of Budapest: 100 Days in World War II (New Haven, Conn., 2005), 40–43.
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1. Entry for Aug. 27, 1941, in Georgi Dimitrov, Tagebücher 1933–1943 (Berlin, 2000), 1:419.
2. Entries for May 16, 1942, and Mar. 2, 1943, ibid., 516–17, 657–58.
3. Entry for Feb. 25, 1944, in Ivo Banac, ed., The Diary of Georgi Dimitrov, 1933–1949 (New Haven, Conn., 2003), 299.
4. Doc. 17 in Antony Polonsky and Boleslaw Drukier, eds., The Beginnings of Communist Rule in Poland (London, 1980), 230–32.
5. Krystyna Kersten, The Establishment of Communist Rule in Poland, 1943–1948 (Berkeley, Calif., 1991), 63–65.
6. Russkii Arkhiv: Velikaya Otechestvennaya Voina: T 14 (3-1): SSSR i Polsha (Moscow, 1994), 105, henceforth SSSR i Polsha.
7. Konstantine K. Rokossovsky, Soldatskii dolg (Moscow, 1988), 274–75; Norman Davies, Rising ’44: The Battle for Warsaw (New York, 2003), 165.
8. Davies, Rising ’44, 204–9.
9. Marek Jan Chodakiewicz, “The Warsaw Rising, 1944: Perception and Reality” (2004), http://www.warsawuprising.com/doc/chodakiewicz1.pdf.
10. Docs. 14 and 15, Feb. 29, 1944, in SSSR i Polsha, 130–32.
11. Felix I. Chuev, Molotov: Poluderzhavnyii vlastelin (Moscow, 2000), 89.
12. Stanisław Mikołajczyk, The Rape of Poland: Pattern of Soviet Aggression (New York, 1948), 69.
13. Doc. 13 in SSSR i Polsha, 206–7.
14. Minutes in T. V. Volokitina et al., eds., Sovetskii faktor v Vostochnoi Evrope, 1944–1953 (Moscow, 1999), 1:67–74; also Mikołajczyk, Rape of Poland, 72–73.
15. Volokitina et al., Sovetskii faktor, 1:84–87; Mikołajczyk, Rape of Poland, 77–79.
16. Doc. 29 in SSSR i Polsha, 218–20.
17. Davies, Rising ’44, 307–15.
18. Docs. 37 and 39, in SSSR: Polsha, 230–33; Stalin-Roosevelt-Churchill letters, Aug. 16–22, in Stalin Correspondence, 1:257–58.
19. Doc. 4, Nov. 22, 1944, in SSSR i Polsha, 182–84.
20. John Erickson, The Road to Berlin: Stalin’s War with Germany (New Haven, Conn., 1983), 285.
21. Rokossovsky, Soldatskii dolg, 274–83; Georgi K. Zhukov, Vospominaniya i razmyshleniya (Moscow, 2002), 2:250–52; Richard Wolff, “Rokossovsky,” in Harold Shukman, ed., Stalin’s Generals (New York, 1993), 177–96, here 191.
22. For a “refutation” of the “conventional” view in the West that Stalin was to blame, see Richard Overy, Russia’s War (New York, 1998), 247–49.
23. SSSR i Polsha, 191–92.
24. Here I agree with the compilers of SSSR i Polsha, 193–94.
25. Czesław Miłosz, The Captive Mind (New York, 1951), 96.
26. Ibid.
27. Bradley F. Smith and Agnes F. Peterson, eds., Heinrich Himmler Geheimreden 1933 bis 1945 (Frankfurt am Main, 1974), 242.
28. Davies, Rising ’44, 433–34.
29. Józef Garliński, Poland in the Second World War (London, 1985), 293–94.
30. Stalin to Churchill, in Stalin Correspondence, 1:258–59.
31. Dwight D. Eisenhower, Crusade in Europe (Garden City, N.Y., 1948), 291–97; The Complete War Memoirs of Charles de Gaulle (New York, 1972), 646.
32. Roosevelt to Churchill, Oct. 16. 1944, in Warren F. Kimball, ed., Churchill and Roosevelt: The Complete Correspondence (Princeton, N.J., 1984), 3:356–58.
33. Roy Jenkins, Churchill, a Biography (New York, 2001), 759.
34. Winston S. Churchill, Triumph and Tragedy (Boston, 1953), 226–28; Anthony Eden, The Reckoning: The Memoirs of Anthony Eden, Earl of Avon (Boston, 1965), 559–50.
35. Churchill to his cabinet, Oct. 14, 1944, in Triumph and Tragedy, 233–35.
36. Valentin M. Berezhkov, Stranitsy diplomaticheskoi istorii (Moscow, 1987), 477–82.
37. Eden, Reckoning, 557; Derek Watson, Molotov: A Biography (New York, 2005), 215; Geoffrey Roberts, Stalin’s Wars: From World War to Cold War, 1939–1953 (New Haven, Conn., 2006), 217–25.
38. W. Averell Harriman and Elie Abel, Special Envoy to Churchill and Stalin, 1941–1946 (New York, 1975), 358.
39. Mikołajczyk, Rape of Poland, 95–96; Harriman and Abel, Special Envoy, 359–60.
40. Mikołajczyk, Rape of Poland, 98; for the British record, see Jenkins, Churchill, 762.
41. Eden, Reckoning, 563; Churchill, Triumph and Tragedy, 235, 237–38.
42. Mikołajczyk, Rape of Poland, 103–4.
43. For the exchange of letters among Roosevelt, Churchill, and Stalin, see FRUS, Conferences at Malta and Yalta, 206–12.
44. Roosevelt to Stalin, Dec. 16, 1944; Stalin to Roosevelt, Dec. 27, ibid., 217–18, 221–23; Kersten, Establishment of Communist Rule in Poland, 104–10.
45. Churchill to Clementine, Oct. 13, 1944, cited in David Reynolds, Summits: Six Meetings That Shaped the Twentieth Century (New York, 2007), 114.
46. Churchill, Triumph and Tragedy, 238.
47. Harriman to Roosevelt, Dec. 14, 1944, in FRUS, Conferences at Malta and Yalta, 20.
48. Quoted in Reynolds, Summits, 134.
49. Eden, Reckoning, 592; Jenkins, Churchill, 773–79.
50. Harriman and Abel, Special Envoy, 367–72.
51. Thomas M. Campbell and George C. Herring, eds., The Diaries of Edward R. Stettinius, Jr. (New York, 1975), 210–14.
52. Entry for Jan. 28, 1945, in Georgi Dimitrov, Dnevnik: mart 1933–fevruari 1949: izbrano (Sofia, 2003), 240–41.
53. Harriman to Secretary of State, Jan. 4, 1945, in FRUS, 1945. Europe, 5:942–44.
54. Edward R. Stettinius, Jr., Roosevelt and the Russians: The Yalta Conference (Garden City, N.Y., 1949), 119–20; Charles E. Bohlen, Witness to History, 1929–1969 (New York, 1973), 186–87.
55. See Berezhkov, Stranitsy diplomaticheskoi istorii, 504–5.
56. Pavel Sudoplatov and Anatoli Sudoplatov, Special Tasks: The Memoirs of an Unwanted Witness—A Soviet Spymaster (New York, 1994), 226.
57. Andrei A. Gromyko, Pamiatnoe (Moscow, 1990), 1:224.
58. Sovetskii Soyuz na mezhdunarodnykh konferentsiyakh perioda Velikoi Otechestvennoi Voiny, 1941–1945 gg.: Sbornik dokumentov: T. 4 Krymskaya konferentsiya rukovoditelei trekh soyuznykh derzhav—SSSR, SShA i Velikobritanii (Moscow, 1979), 50–53, henceforth, Krymskaya konferentsiya.