In late 1941 Litvinov's services were once again required. With the Germans banging on the gates of Moscow, Stalin's desperate situation necessitated urgent help from the West. Litvinov was sent to Washington as Soviet ambassador. The Americans were reluctant to lend money to the Soviet Union, but Litvinov soon sorted everything out and within a few weeks a loan of one billion dollars was granted. A Lend Lease agreement was signed and over the next four years $11 billion worth of supplies and services were provided. Litvinov "could call the White House at any time and the President [Roosevelt] would see him immediately".^ Both these stooges of the international bankers pumped gold - the one out of Russia, the other from the people of the United States - into the vaults of Rothschild's Pederal Reserve Bank. 11551
Litvinov 11 ^ was recalled in 1943 when the war turned in Russia's favour. His successor as foreign minister, Vyacheslav Molotov, provides an apt epitaph."Litvinov was utterly hostile to us ... He deserved the highest measure of punishment at the hands of the proletariat. Every punishment" . am
Lrom 1-22 July 1944 the international bankers organised a conference at Bretton Woods, New Hampshire. Its purpose was to establish a World Bank and an International Monetary Lund which would govern relations amongst independent nations and maintain fixed exchange rates. Soviet
representatives attended the conference, but refused to sign, stating that the proposed institutions were "branches of Wall Street". 11221 This impertinence of Stalin in all probability angered the Rothschilds, but there was little that they could do, while Germany remained undefeated.
Between 17 July and 2 August 1945 the Potsdam conference was held in Germany. It determined the new borders of Europe. From this time the Soviet Union was gradually frozen out and the start of the Cold War commenced. Stalin had no designs on Western Europe. His army was completely exhausted and he had more than enough tasks on his hands in absorbing Eastern Europe under his hegemony and repairing all the damage to his country,which he had inflicted on himself by provoking Germany into starting a preventative war. M From a military perspective the dropping of alleged 11221 nuclear bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki was unnecessary, as in January 1945 Japan was already trying to secure surrender terms. The firebombing of these two cities served two more sinister purposes: (i) as a punishment to the Japanese for having set up their own state bank and (ii) as a warning to the Soviet Union which also had a state bank.
The Cold War was prosecuted, initially, by the Western countries in order to bring the Soviet Union to heel. Stalin, who was rather more of a nationalist 11211 than a communist, resisted and was allegedly poisoned, and then allowed to die from a massive stroke for which he did not receive any medical treatment, on 1 March 1953 11221 . Thereafter the Cold War degenerated into a farce, as the West, and in particular the United States, invested heavily in the Soviet Union. Huge investments were made at the Gorki plant which built Ford trucks, and the largest automotive plant in the world at Volgograd, which manufactured Fiat cars. There were also substantial investments in aviation, computers and electricity.The Soviet Union became an investment destination of choice.The Russians soldiered on, but with 50% of their budget being allocated to armaments, this was a war which they could not win in the long term. This explains why living standards in the Soviet Union could never match those achieved in the West, notwithstanding the provision of free services such as education and housing
