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  Hobsbawn declares in his autobiography: 1943 it seemed that Moscow was calling into question the future of the communist party. The Communist International was dissolved that year. The significance of the Tehran Conference held in 1943 between the three Allied WWII powers (Stalin/Churchill/Roosevelt) may be beyond an important strategic meeting between the three leaders. It is usually described as a strategic meeting that greatly shaped the course of WWII: USSR committed to enter the war against Japan once Germany was defeated, Roosevelt and Stalin convinced Churchill to reconquer France first through the North (Operation Overlord) and then through the South (Operation Dragoon), which would ease the pressure upon the soviet army who then attack Germany's Eastern flank (Operation Bagration). Also, Roosevelt secured the reincorporation of the Republics of Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia into the Soviet Union only after the citizens voted on those actions. Stalin would not consent