Churchill and Stalin

16th August 1942: Churchill concludes his first meeting with the Soviet dictator in the Kremlin with drinks late into the night

Mr Churchill, who has been greeted by the Soviet Foreign Minister Molotov on arrival at Moscow airport, stands bareheaded while Red Army bands play the national anthems of Britain, the USA and the USSR, 12 August 1942. William Averell Harriman, the US special envoy to Europe; Vyacheslav Molotov, the Soviet Foreign Commissar; and Boris Shaposhnikov, the …