Bullit lists Stalin’s future goals: the annexation of Bessarabia, Bukonina and the Carpathians, giving Russia access to the Hungarian plain and southern Poland; the annexation of eastern Poland, plus Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia; to set up Soviet-controlled governments in Yugoslavia and Czechoslovakia; to have the French Communists dominate a de Gaulle government; to make Germany a Communist nation; to eventually reduce Poland to the status of a Soviet republic; lastly, to control the Bosporus, the Dardanelles and northern Iran.

