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[Regnum] Members of the British Parliament went wild in March 1940 when London's plans to strike the USSR were thwarted, according to declassified documents from the Russian Foreign Policy Archives published by the Presidential Library.
| The secret Hitler-Stalin non-aggression pact was signed 23 August 1939. They agreed to split Poland, and the Soviet Union would take Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Finland and Bessarabia. A week later Nazi Germany invaded Poland from one side, and a few weeks after that the Soviets came in on the other; at the end of November the Soviets invaded Finland … the Allies figured out what had happened. |
The war between the USSR and Finland ended on March 12, 1940. The parties signed a peace treaty. A few days later, the Soviet ambassador to England, Ivan Maisky, reported to the People's Commissariat of Foreign Affairs about the mood in the British parliament.
"I have rarely seen parliament in such a state of irritation and excitement. More than ever, it became clear how timely the peace had been concluded," follows from a coded telegram from the USSR Ambassador to England Ivan Maisky on March 14, 1940.
He reported that the parliamentary "masses" were in a frenzy and greeted with stormy approval every anti-Soviet attack heard in the British Parliament. According to him, there was a great danger of open intervention by England and France on the side of Finland.
As reported on August 24 by the Regnum news agency, the Presidential Library declassified archives on Britain and France's plans to start a war with the USSR in 1940. According to Soviet intelligence, in early 1940, Britain and France decided to start a war against the Soviet Union. They planned to strike from Finland and the Caucasus, and to create a "national Russian government."
Thus, Britain and France planned to transfer Canadian troops to Finland to capture the port of Petsamo, which they intended to use as a military base against Murmansk and Arkhangelsk. The main task was to capture Leningrad.
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