Chiang Kai-shek and his wife at the Cairo Conference with Roosevelt and Churchill. At the meeting, the United States and Britain regarded Jiang as a "giant", but after the meeting, they gathered together to calculate China's interests.
The Soviet Union's statement greatly disappointed the pro-Soviet forces in Germany ( both for and against Hitler . They had hoped that Stalin would be more rational and not to join the Americans in pushing Germany into a desperate situation.
Stalin may not have failed to understand that Roosevelt's proposal to "unconditionally surrender" Germany and punish war criminals was nothing more than forcing Hitler to break through and fight the Soviet Union to the death. After sudder shedding all his blood, the Americans would eventually come back to collect the fisherman's profits.
But the latest war situation on the Eastern Front shows that the Red Army has the strength to defeat Germany once and for all. The prospect of controlling Central and Eastern Europe was undoubtedly of great allure to Stalin. Moreover, he had the exiled German Communist Party at hand, and some German generals were willing to cooperate with the Soviet Union. Therefore, after Hitler's complete disappearance, it was not impossible to establish a pro-Soviet German government.
But the Americans are more interested in wiping out Germany from a national point of view!