actually till 1938 both Britain and Russia tries their best to had agreements with Hitler separately. till early 1939, Hitler was not fascist in their eyes. Operation Barbarossa was authorized by Hitler on 18 December 1940 (Directive No. 21) for a start date of 15 May 1941, but this would not be met, and instead the invasion began on 22 June 1941. but things started changing after Roswelt decision to end its neutrality in late1930s. US president introduced Lend and lease act and in March 1941 it was passed after much horse trading. till may 1941, US had sold more than 7 billion arms to USSR, Britain (major partner) , china & France. so at 14th august 1941 Atlantic Charter US turned tables and from that day he is supper power while all other major powers r acting like her junior partners, some as partners, some as enemies , as prescribed in drama
For those who wanted to read more about this shifting of power , just read it
http://avalon.law.yale.edu/wwii/brsov41.asp
http://www.themoscowtimes.com/news/article/churchill-and-stalin-in-all-night-wartime-drinking-session/480451.html
The two leaders did not engage in much military talk during the meeting, but Churchill did probe Stalin about his policy on the kulaks.
LONDON — Soviet dictator Josef Stalin and Britain's wartime Prime Minister Winston Churchill enjoyed an alcohol-fueled all-nighter in Moscow as World War II was in full swing, previously secret files have revealed.
Relations between the two leaders were stiff until Churchill arranged a tete-a-tete with Stalin, with the aid of interpreters, which led to a late-night boozy banquet in 1942, according to files released by Britain's National Archives.
"There I found Stalin and Churchill, and Molotov who joined them, sitting with a heavily laden board between them: food of all kinds, crowned by a suckling pig and innumerable bottles," wrote Sir Alexander Cadogan, permanent under-secretary at the Foreign Office, of the visit.
The mood was "merry as a marriage-bell," he added, though Churchill was complaining of a "slight headache" when Cadogan came to find him at one in the morning, and "seemed wisely confining himself to a comparatively innocuous effervescent Caucasian red wine."
The two leaders did not engage in much military talk during the meeting, which went on until 3 a.m., but Churchill did probe the Georgian-born dictator about his internal policy.
Asked what was happening with the kulaks, the relatively rich farming class Stalin had vowed to exterminate, he responded "with great frankness" saying that the kulaks had been given land in Siberia but '"they were very unpopular with the rest of the people!"'
The evening was dubbed a success by the author of the note, as the two men got on.
"Certainly Winston was impressed, and I think the feeling was reciprocated," he wrote.
The Moscow Times
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