Stalin's dismay as D-Day postponed

11th June 1943: Allied promises that they will open a "Second Front" in Western Europe leaves Soviet Russia taking the brunt of the German onslaught

The Soviet leader Stalin, soon after the outbreak of war in 1941.

On 3rd June Roosevelt had written to Stalin to explain that the proposed 'Second Front', the invasion of Western Europe would not take place until 1944. Stalin was naturally not very impressed by this decision. On the 11th June he replied, expressing his dismay that he had not been consult…