The transcription of the speech is an archival record in the fund of the 2nd Bureau of General Staff of French Army and probably also in Moscow, in the Centre for the Preservation of Collections of Historical Documents, former Soviet Special Archives. In Russian the speech has been published in journal "Novõi Mir" 12/1994, pp 232-233 (Tatjana Bushuyeva's survey of books by Viktor Suvorov, see
Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact: Background Information for the Anniversary
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Prior to anniversaries of Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact and the outbreak of World War II a closer look at the historic background of the events is appropriate. A remarkable source of information would be the speech by Jossif Stalin, the Soviet leader, to the Members of the Politbureau on 19 August 1939. The following is a translation of the alleged text.
The transcription of the speech is an archival record in the fund of the 2nd Bureau of General Staff of French Army and probably also in Moscow, in the Centre for the Preservation of Collections of Historical Documents, former Soviet Special Archives. In Russian the speech has been published in journal "Novõi Mir" 12/1994, pp 232-233 (Tatjana Bushuyeva's survey of books by Viktor Suvorov, see
