explain Stalin's relationship with Churchill and Roosevelt please?

Stalin was in bed with the west out of necessity due to the invasion of Russia by the Nazi army. Basically the enemy of my enemy is my friend scenario worked here. As long as the war lasted, so did the aliance. V-E day basically spelled the end of cooperation between the leaders of the West and Russia. Stalin was a 20th century version of Atilla or Tamerlane and as such, he distrusted other leaders as being bent upon destroying him and Russia, especially after being stabbed in the back by Hitler via Operation Barbarossa. Russian soldiers were told after the victory over the Germans that next was "on to London". Churchill, ever distrustful of the Communists, refused to turn over to Stalin tens of thousands of Soviet POWs that rallied to the side of the Germans from Byelorussia and the Ukraine. These troops were to be used in clandestine ops inside Russia after the end of WW2. So on the the Cold War. Roosevelt looked upon Stalin as a warlord like Chang Kai-Shek who could be worked with and eventually brought into the family of nations as he "matured" as a leader. Remember, the world was filled with autocratic or dictatorial leaders in the WW2 era, democracy was a minority then.

As for whether Russia was better off under Stalin or the Czar, one thing to consider was that under the Czars, there were no purges of millions of human beings like under the Communists. People still starved and the secret police still operated, just under different masters. One upper ruling class disappeared and another made up of communist party bosses appeared. The poor people stayed poor and were fed platitudes of communist idealisms instead of religious dogma. Basically the same thoughts, just cloaked in different clothes.

Basically Stalin did not trust either of them, and Churchill did not trust Stalin. Roosevelt trusted them both, to a point. But basically all three men realized they needed each other to ensure victory against Germany.

Stalin was a monster, I'd have to guess the Russian people were slightly better off with the Czars.

Roosevelt went on record as saying working with Stalin was ' dealing with the devil'. Churchill believed that Stalin would invade Britian if possible, because you have to remember that Nazi Germany first had a non aggressor pact with Soviets, and had Hitler not violated that, they would have probably been a strong enouhg force to allow for the defeat of all of Western Europe, even with United States helping. Now when you ask 'better off', do you mean civil liberties wise, or economically? If you mean economically, then yes it was the best under Stalin, but civil liberties, and just about any other accord would have to be no.

After Operation Barbarossa, the German invasion of Russia after the Germans broke the non aggression pact the Big Three, as Roosvelt, Churchill and Stalin were called all needed each other. They had a common enemy, Hitler and were able to overlook some of their normal aggravations with each other in order to win the war. This did not mean that things were all roses and wine with them, Stalin complained that Churchill and Roosevelt were doing nothing to establish a true second front in Western Europe and the campaigns in Africa and Italy were not diverting many German troops and resources from the Eastern Front. Stalin felt he was doing all the hard fighting and taking the casualties while the Western part of the Big Three were making headlines with bombing raids and trifling incursions.

Roosevelt and Churchill were also close personal friends. Churchill spent many nights at the White House during the war, had a good working relationship with Roosevelt and the Western Allies shared a good deal of culture and history. Stalin was kind of the odd man out, someone that the west had to get along with because of his huge army and the necessity of victory.

Well, Stalin's relationship between Churchill and Roosevelt were not good. Stalin felt that they were ganging up on him because of their differing beliefs, i.e. communism. It was so bad, the cold war started because the US felt they had to go on a crusade to prevent the spread of communism. What might have been good about it was that