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October 10, 1944	Record of Meeting at the Kremlin, Moscow on 10 October 1944, at 7 p.m. Eden and Molotov discuss the post-war situation in the Balkans, the installment of a Control Commission to influence Bulgaria, Hungary, Romania, Yugoslavia and Germany as well as the dividing of these countries and which Great Power should exert control on each country.
October 9, 1944	Record of Meeting at the Kremlin, Moscow, 9 October 1944, at 10 p.m. Churchill, Eden, Stalin, and Molotov discuss the leadership in Poland, Britains interests in Greece and Hong Kong, the actions of Romania and Bulgaria during the war, Turkey, the need for the Great Powers to exert influence on the Balkans to prevent small wars, the leadership of Italy, interests in Bulgaria and Romania, the dividing of Germany and Germany's future, and the American plans in the war against Japan.
May 17, 1944	Record of the Conversation of Comrade I.V. Stalin and Comrade V.M. Molotov with Polish Professor Lange Stalin meetings with Oscar Richard Lange, professor of economics at Chicago University. They discuss the Polish Army, the Polish government-in-exile in London, the formation of a new Polish state following the war.
April 28, 1944	Record of a Conversation between I. V. Stalin and the Roman Catholic Priest Stanislaus Orlemanski about the Feelings of the Polish Nationals in the United States toward the USSR Stalin and Stanislaus Orlemanski, an American priest of Polish-American heritage, discuss America's perception of the Soviet Union, and the relationship between Poland and the Soviet Union.
July 2, 1945	Record of a Meeting between T.V. Soong and Stalin Notes taken during meetings between the Chinese nationalist government and the Soviet Union in Moscow during Sino-Soviet treaty negotiations.
August 29, 1945	Cable from Kuz’ma Derevyanko to Aleksei Antonov Report concerning the division of occupied territory in the Pacific between the Soviet Union and the United States.
August 23, 1945	Cable from Aleksandr Vasilevsky [?] to Stalin Report on the surrender of Japanese forces on the Kurile Islands.
August 23, 1945	Cable from Vyacheslav Molotov to Soviet Ambassador in the United States Drafted response from Stalin to Truman regarding Hokkaido and Kurile Islands.
August 22, 1945	Order by Aleksandr Vasilevsky to Nikolai Kuznetsov and Ivan Yumashev Orders for preparations for a planned invasion of the Japanese island of Hokkaido and the southern Kurile Islands. Operations are not to begin "until special instructions from the Headquarters."
August 21, 1945	Cable from Nikolai Kuznetsov to Aleksandr Vasilevsky Information related to a planned invasion of the Japanese island of Hokkaido.