Did Stalin seek a Separate Peace with Hitler in WW2? | TIK Q&A 21

It appears that Stalin may have sought a separate peace with Hitler in WW2. Thank you to David E Dyrud for your question! Sadly, I've only really found one source which directly addresses this question, so if you know of any others that talk about this, please let me know so I can do a follow-up. Some of my books hint at peace-negotiations happening in 1944, but they are vague. To clarify a point raised in the video, I don't have evidence of negotiations before Stalingrad, but (as a bit of conjecture) I suspect that if there were negotiations in 1942-43, and possibly in 1944, then there's no reason to assume there wasn't any in 1941 or early 1942. Evidence may exist out there... so I'm certainly not ruling it out until it's confirmed one way or another.

The main source used in this video - Vojtech Mastny’s "Stalin and the Prospects of a Separate Peace in World War II." Link: https://www.jstor.org/stable/1861311

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