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Documents from the archives of the Russian Foreign Ministry have been published on the History. RF website. The historical materials help to find out how what was happening in the political world before the start of World War II. The documents reveal the efforts that the leadership of the Soviet Union put in to avoid a global conflict.
Anyone can get acquainted with the correspondence, which was conducted through diplomatic channels between Moscow, Berlin, Paris and London. The site posted notes, reports and recorded conversations with ambassadors. The text of the non-aggression treaty, which was concluded by Germany and the USSR, a secret additional protocol and explanations to it were also posted on the website.
The materials clearly indicate that the so-called course of "pacification", which was conducted by France and Britain in the thirties of the last century, allowed Hitler to increase his military potential and encouraged his aggressive actions.
Moscow, in turn, repeatedly offered the French and English authorities to sign military agreements against Germany, but always faced sabotage on this issue.
The failure of the trilateral talks in Moscow in the summer of 1939 was the last straw that pushed the Soviet leadership to the decision to accept Hitler’s proposal and conclude a non-aggression treaty. The treaty with Hitler's Germany was for the USSR an undesirable decision in the usual circumstances, but inevitable and the only possible one from the point of view of ensuring the national state interests of the Soviet Union in August 1939.
The publication of documents is timed to the 80th anniversary of the beginning of the Second World War.
Russkiy Mir
