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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: appeal of the peopleʹs commissioner for foreign affairs of the

RSFSR to the workers and peasants of Persia

August 28, 1919

The Persian government, for its   part, has also   declared  all  such  treaties destroyed. .  It seemed that a new  free  life  and  rebirth   after the age‐old oppression of foreign predators were  to  begin for  the  Persian  people. .

But thatʹs not   what happened. .  In the spring of 1918,   British troops  gradually  occupied  the entire  territory  of Persia.  The British swore  that  once the   Turks were  expelled,  they  would  clear  Persian  territory  and reward the  Persians  for  all the looting and requisitions caused by  British  soldiers.  Note of the  English  government  of March

12, 1918. These    promises  were printed on  March 14  in the  official 

Persian body  ʺraabʺ.