The Moscow Conference was a battleground for foreign ministers. Next, it's the turn of the leaders to play in person. Stalin – the revolutionary Grand Chieftain, the unscrupulous new Caesar; Roosevelt – a sinister charlatan who looked like a gentleman who dreamed of dominating the world with dollars; Churchill – a literary young man with a strong personality, the weakest realist.
Roosevelt and Churchill had suggested that the meeting places—the gladiatorial arenas for the leaders—should be set up in Cairo, Baghdad, and even three tents could be set up in the desert. Stalin, however, insisted on being in Tehran, the capital of Iran, where the Soviet Union and the West shared their sphere of influence, on the grounds that it would be convenient for him to command the Soviet-German war, especially if there were some troubles in the Zhytomyr direction.
To do this, he will fly for the first time in his life, the C-47. Stalin, taking his personal safety seriously, refused to fly in a plane piloted by General Golovanov, commander of the long-range aviation corps, and instead boarded the plane of a colonel. After all, rank is often inversely proportional to flight ability.