how little Stalin cared about France was demonstrated at Yalta only six weeks later when he was the leader least favourable to French interests. While pushing Churchill and Roosevelt to recognize the Lublin Committee, he remarked mischievously that de Gaulle’s democratic base of support in France was no greater. At Yalta, France was in fact granted a zone of occupation in Germany, a permanent seat on the Security Council of the newly created United Nations and a seat on the Inter-Allied Control Commission in Berlin – although this last concession was resisted by both Stalin and Roosevelt until
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