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• Awkward Allies: the Ministry's domestic policy for the Soviet Union

  Posted by Egilboy on Nov. 30, 2016 | Comments

  

  Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden addresses the audience at the Royal Albert Hall, 21 February 1943. © IWM (TR 705)

  In 1939 the Soviet Union hardly featured in the Ministry’s thinking. There were no experts for it to call on, no agreed policy for the country, and seemingly little interest in …