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...thinkers; the idea if not the term has been a persistent but chimerical dream in the West for decades. During World War II, when the Soviet Union was cast as an ally of Western democracies, convergence was widely propagated by a pair of émigré Russian sociologists, Nikolai Timasheff of Fordham and the late Pitirim Sorokin of Harvard. Both professors theorized that the Soviet Union would eventually develop into a less repressive and more democratic society as it progressed economically...
From the beginning the Angle-Russian consultations were based on great misunderstandings according to Timasheff. In the Moscow talks Russia simply asked for occupation of parts of Poland where Ukranians and Ruthenians were in the majority...
Characterizing the present European puzzle as a "game of skilled politicians," Timasheff believes that in settling the Czechoslovakian problem, Great Britain and France gave Hitler a free hand in Russia. "Hitler was sure Poland would agree to a plan for lopping off part of the Ukraine and dividing the spoils. Germany would get Danzig and part of the Corridor in addition to part to the Ukraine which would be split between the two countries...
Professor Timasheff believes that the present situation is quite stable, as far as Russia gains in Poland are concerned. But he is convinced that if Germany succeeds in defeating England and France, she will attack Russia...
...Timasheff calls Germany's Baltic concessions "incredible." Repatriation of Germans in the Baltic States means that Germany has given these countries to Russia forever instead of using them as stepping stones for further agression...