ABSTRACT
After the first meeting of the Big Three, Stalin felt that he was firmly installed among the world's rulers. Roosevelt had treated him as his equal; so had Churchill, though not without some flashes of temper; victory seemed in sight. The treaty of mutual assistance between the USSR. and the government of General Sikorsky had been annulled after the tragic discovery of the charnel-house of Katyn, despite the affirmations of Moscow that the Gestapo had faked the tragic fraud. Military necessities compelled Stalin to adopt measures which were essentially favourable to his secret political aims in respect of the future. A conference opened in Moscow on 1944. Stalin requested the delegates to guarantee the tranquillity of the Polish territory by forming a Provisional National Committee, the nucleus of the future government. Hitler's success against Badoglio's Italian troops in the islands of the Mediterranean had the effect of strengthening the collaboration between the Allies and bringing about the landing in Normandy.
