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  Selected Secret Documents from Soviet Foreign Policy Documents Archives - 1919 to 1941

Concentrated on 1st and  2nd WW Correspondence and Meetings related to Turkey, Balkans and Iran, with some additions from Afghanistan and India.

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From diary of the first secretary of the official USSR representations in Germany Ivanova

August 20‐26, 1939 secret

Viii. A message was published in the German press about the forthcoming conclusion of a non‐aggression pact between the Soviet Union and Germany. All day long telephone calls did not stop, inquiring about the validity of Ribbentrop’s upcoming flight to Moscow. Press attaché comrade Smirnov was literally attacked by journalists (see his diary) *. The first secretary of the Turkish embassy, Mr. Efchen, who came to me on a visit, having received information from me about the reality of the upcoming trip, expressed confidence that for Turkey such a pact is a serious contribution to peace, that the friendship between Turkey and Russia is unshakable and that a peaceful policy the Soviet Union has repeatedly saved the world from military adventures, and it welcomes such a pact. He only doubts whether this will wipe Poland off the map of the world, since the pact with the Soviet Union strongly strengthens Germany, without removing its demands from Poland.