Презентация на тему Up-to-Date Diplomatic Links

continued distrust exacerbated by the Soviet purges made close

collaboration impossible in the face of the rise of Fascism in the 1930s

A new Stage of Russian – British Relationships.

Then, last -

minute talks between Britain and France on the one hand and the Soviet Union on the other broke down in August 1939, just before the signing of the Nazi – Soviet nonaggression pact involving the partition of Poland and the Baltic States , and the outbreak of the Second World War . However , Stalin's policy of appeasement was also to fail as Hitler launched Operation Barbarossa on June 22nd , 1941.

Soviet Union for his militant anti – Communism, was

now accepted as a loyal ally. Stalin, widely represented in the West as a heartless dictator , now became cuddly «Uncle Joe». In the Soviet Union , although conformity remained the order of the day, the purges ceased.

Stalin and Churchill.

win the war and to shape the postwar world

. In an informal meeting with Stalin in October 1944 . Churchill had already made the so-called «percentages deal» , assigning spheres of influence in Eastern Europe : 90 % for the USSR in Romania and for the UK in Greece, and so on.

It was the period of conflict,
tension and competition
between the UK and the Soviet
Union and their allies
from the mid 1940s until the
early 1990s.

prime minister Margaret Thatcher famously observed that the West

could do business with the new Soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev. Not enough of it ensued , however , and the collapse of the Soviet Union came in 1991.

Perestroika.

1994.But it will also further enhance his standing among

the Russian people, which is all very useful just months before important parliamentary and presidential elections. A speech made by The Queen at the State Banquet in the Kremlin on 18 October 1994, during the first ever State Visit by a UK monarch to Russia. Boris Yeltsin was President and host at the occasion

differences over Chechnya and Iraq apart , Great Britain

and Russia as represented by Blair and Putin were more amicable than at any time since the end of the Second World War.

Vladimir Putin & Tony Blair.

In an open letter to Mr. Blair, Human Rights Watch said that as one of Russia's "most important partners'' his intervention could make an "important difference in the lives of thousands of Chechens''.

Though several Russian heads of
state, including Mr. Putin, have
come here regularly they were not
treated as guests of the Queen.