Доступны ранее секретные документы секретариата МИДа Британии о визите У. Черчилля в Москву и его встрече с И. Сталиным.
Источник:
http://filestore.nationalarchives.gov.uk/documents/fo-1093-247.pdf
Первоисточники позволяют в ином свете понять обстановку и важность мероприятия, на котором обсуждались вопросы «второго фронта». Лидеры стран реально нашли общий язык в неформальном общении, несмотря на головную боль У. Черчилля. Например (без перевода и уточнения фамилий участников, которые и так известны):
«There I found Winston and Stalin, and Molotov who has joined them, sitting with a heavily-laden board between them: food of all kinds crowned by a sucking [sic] pig, and innumerable bottles. What Stalin made me drink seemed pretty savage: Winston, who by that time was complaining of a slight headache, seemed wisely to be confining himself to a comparatively innocuous effervescent Caucasian red wine. Everyone seemed to be as merry as a marriage bell».
«Willkie…made a great impression on Stalin, and the reverse is certainly the case…Willkie showed great interest in the new Russian sub-machine gun…At Willkie’s request Stalin sent somebody to bring in a specimen, and within five minutes, one was brought in. Barnes was very nervous, because by this time everybody was in a high state of intoxication. He gives full marks to Sir Archibald Clark-Kerr who gracefully took the gun out of Voroshilov’s hands and span the drum to make certain it was quite empty before handing it to Willkie. A banal and drunken incident followed when Cowles placed an apple on top of his head, Willkie aimed the gun and pressed the trigger, and Cowles jiggled the apple of his head. At this everyone laughed, and Stalin said: «You know you ought to be careful carrying a machine gun in the Kremlin». Willkie replied: «Why should I care? It isn’t my apple». Stalin laughed so much, he almost rolled off his chair».
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