Iain MacGregor

When Stalin was the lesser of two evils

Churchill detested Stalin, but Britain and the US needed his help against an even worse enemy. Giles Milton reveals the true nature of the Big Three’s dysfunctional relationship

The Big Three at the Tehran Conference, December 1943. [Alamy]

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