Intransigent anti-communism and/or pragmatic diplomacy? Pius XII’s Eastern policy between world war and cold war
Journal: Anuario de Historia de la Iglesia
Year: 2023

In an investigation involving Vatican sources that have recently been opened for research, the paper reassesses the story of the actual or alleged Vatican-Soviet attempts at rapprochement initiated during and after World War II with the aim to explore the considerations that shaped Vatican eastern policy at the end of the war. Ont he basis of a closer examination of the Orlemanski mission in the spring of 1944, the Flynn mission in March 1945, and the negotiations initiated in 1946 through Hunga