Vyacheslav Molotov arrives in Washington

On April 22, Vyacheslav Molotov, People's Commissar for Foreign Affairs of the USSR, arrived in Washington by plane. According to the Izvestia newspaper, he was met at the airfield by U.S. Secretary of State Edward Stettinius, Soviet Ambassador to the United States Andrei Gromyko and members of the Soviet embassy.

In addition, there was a large group of American and foreign correspondents and cameramen. It was reported in reputable circles that US President Harry Truman accepted Molotov.

A Washington correspondent for the United Press reported that Molotov's conversation with Truman lasted approximately 30 minutes.

There were exactly 17 days left until the Great Victory.

"Meanwhile, the troops of the 1st Ukrainian Front, going on the offensive, broke through the heavily fortified and deeply echeloned German defenses with the support of massive artillery and aviation strikes and broke into Berlin, the capital of Germany, from the south," the Izvestia newspaper says.

The material was published as part of the Izvestia special project "80 days to Victory."

All articles of Izvestia during the Great Patriotic War can be found in the electronic archive.