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The Emperor recalled his ambassadors to the USA and England at the same time — in early April 1943.
Recalling Litvinov, just like appointing him, was a forceful statement in the ongoing conversation with Mr. Roosevelt. The Emperor showed that he was tired of the uncertainty about the second front, of the inclination of his temporary friends to pay for everything with Russian blood, and their lack of desire to guarantee the western borders of the Empire. After recalling Litvinov, he left a pawn in his stead — Gromyko.
Roosevelt, reportedly, responded to Maxim Maximovich’s casual, “Well, I guess, it’s good-bye” with a direct (and for the Russian, therefore, unbearable) conclusion:
“You will never return.”
Maxim Maximovich and Anastasia Petrova got vaccinated against plague and choler
