Agreement Quote by W. Averell Harriman

We both agreed that Stalin was determined to hold out against the Germans. He told us he'd never let them get to Moscow. But…

— W. Averell Harriman

It was fear. He didn't want to see a united Germany. Stalin made it clear to me - I spoke with him many times…

— W. Averell Harriman

There's a myth that Roosevelt gave Stalin Eastern Europe. I was with Roosevelt every day at Yalta.

— W. Averell Harriman

I think Stalin was afraid of Roosevelt. Whenever Roosevelt spoke, he sort of watched him with a certain awe. He was afraid of Roosevelt's…

— W. Averell Harriman

Poland, of course, was the key country. I remember Stalin telling me that the plains of Poland were the invasion route of Europe to…

— W. Averell Harriman

Stalin’s postwar goals were security for himself, his regime, his country, and his ideology, in precisely that order.

— John Lewis Gaddis

There's no question that Stalin broke the agreements made at Yalta completely about elections that were supposed to be held immediately in Poland, and…

— Mark Shields

I think the most important thing that comes out of the meeting between Churchill and Roosevelt in early 1942 is a commitment on Roosevelt's…

— Robert Dallek

“At the Yalta Conference in early 1945, Franklin Roosevelt had made it clear that he had little interest in further close collaboration or partnership…

— Lynne Olson

“Stalin is one of the most extraordinary figures in world history. He began as a small clerk, and he has never stopped being a…

— Adolf Hitler

Stalin made mistakes. He made mistakes towards us, for example, in 1927. He made mistakes towards the Yugoslavs too. One cannot advance without mistakes...…

— Mao Zedong

That was the principle of reparations to which President Truman agreed at Potsdam. And the United States will not agree to the taking from…

— James F. Byrnes