On instructions from Georgi Dimitrov in Moscow, Pollitt was retained in a six-member political bureau after his removal. He was reinstated as the leader of CPGB after Germany invaded the Soviet Union in 1941, again, in response to instructions received from Moscow. Moscow also overturned Dutt's previous position of criticising the Churchill and charactersing the war as a struggle for socialism, instead endorsing Pollitt's position of offering full support to the Churchill government and avoiding inflaming anti-socialist opinion.