The 'Fourth Moscow Conference'
[1] (
code named TOLSTOY) between the major
Allies of
World War II took place from
October 9 to
November 19 1944.
The chief representatives for the
Soviet Union at the conference were
Joseph Stalin, the Soviet leader, and
Vyacheslav Molotov the Soviet foreign minister. The
United Kingdom principle representatives were
Winston Churchill, the
British Prime Minister and the British
Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden.
The
United States ambassador to Moscow,
Averell Harriman, and General
John R. Deane, head of the United States Military Mission in Moscow, participated as observers. Also at the conference were delegations from both the London based
Polish government in Exile and
Provisional Polish communist government based in
Lublin.
[2][3]
Issues discussed at the conference were the Soviet Unions's entry in the war against Japan, post-war division of the Balkans and the future of Poland.
See also
★
Percentages agreement
★ First
Moscow Conference (1941)
★ Second
Moscow Conference (1942)
★ Third
Moscow Conference (1943)
★
List of World War II conferences
References and notes
1. Some British sources call this the 'Second Moscow Conference' as it was the second time Churchill and Stalin had met at a conference in Moscow. The previous time was for the 1942 Conference (see Fact File : Second Moscow Conference 9 to 19 October 1944 BBC)
2. Fact File : Second Moscow Conference 9 to 19 October 1944 BBC
3. Stanly Smith Part 1: The Polish Government: Could Churchill have done more to save Poland from Communism?