Item COLD WAR 28/8 - Transcript of interview with interpreter Vladimir Yerofeyev, 1995

Typescript transcript of interview with Vladimir Yerofeyev, French language translator for Soviet President Josef Vissarionovich Stalin, [1945]-1953, relating to the death of US President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 12 Apr 1945; the attendance at the United Nations Organisation Conference, San Francisco, California, USA, of (Skryabin) Vyacheslav Mikhailovich Molotov, Soviet Foreign Minister, Apr-Jun 1945; the Victory Day celebrations, Moscow, USSR, 9 May 1945; the Potsdam conference, codenamed TERMINAL, between the leaders of the USSR, USA and UK to decide the future boundaries of East European states, Potsdam, Germany, 17 Jul-2 Aug 1945; the decision, by US President Harry S Truman, to inform Stalin of the USA's possession of the atomic bomb, Jul 1945; the relationship between Stalin and Molotov, 1941-1953; the character of Stalin, 1941-1945; the joint occupation of Iran by Soviet and British forces, 1941-1946; the reaction in the USSR to the Marshall Plan, the US European Recovery Program, 1948; the Soviet blockade of West Berlin and the Berlin Airlift, 1948-1949; the creation of the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO), 1949; the expulsion of Yugoslavia from the Cominform (Communist Information Bureau), an organisation to co-ordinate Communist Party activities throughout Europe, Jun 1948; the 'Doctor's plot', an anti-Semitic conspiracy against Jewish Doctors who had treated leading members of the Soviet Communist Party, 1950-1953; and the death of Stalin, 5 Mar 1953. 54pp