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Stalin was a master politician, manipulator, and ruthless dictator. He also had many on his staff that were in the same league. Read The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich and both Soviet foreign diplomats, Litvinov then Molotov (yes the one named for the Molotov cocktail) were also masters of deception, diplomacy, language, character with total loyalty to the State.

They were on the front line often between Stalin, Hitler, FDR, Chamberlain, then Churchill. The conversations and correspondences between them all are pure classic masterpieces with every word carefully chosen and used in a manner to influence, win at all costs and ultimately change the face of History.