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The Alco diesel Da20-27 locomotive that brought Joseph Stalin and his party to Germany for the Potsdam Conference, Jul 1945

Caption     The Alco diesel Da20-27 locomotive that brought Joseph Stalin and his party to Germany for the Potsdam Conference, Jul 1945 ww2dbase
Photographer    Unknown
Source    ww2dbaseGerman Federal Archives
Identification Code   Bild 183-14059-0005
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Potsdam Conference   Main article  Photos  
Photo Size 980 x 595 pixels
Photos on Same Day 15 Jul 1945
Added By C. Peter Chen
Licensing  Creative Commons Attribution ShareAlike 3.0 Germany License (CC BY-SA 3.0 DE).

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1. Commenter identity confirmed Alan Chanter says:
16 Oct 2013 09:01:02 AM

When Stalin travelled from Moscow to the Potsdam Conference in July 1945, he made the 1,923 km journey in a convoy of up to eight armoured trains. One reason for this was his fear of flying, the other being his fear of assassination by anti-Soviet partisans in Ukraine, Belorussia and Poland.

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