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Telegram of the attorney of the USSR in the Turkish republic s. A. Vinogradov in the NKID of the USSR

10 July 1940

Today I met with Faiza Mohamed khan. After several questions about Terentyevʹs health, on his own initiative, he said: “in connection with the publication of the documents **, I got the following impression: after the defeat of France, Germany concentrated its main efforts on England. At the same time, Germany does not want the influence of the USSR to grow in its rear in the Balkans. After the USSR returned Bessarabia and received Bukovina by force, Turkey concentrated significant forces in Thrace. Germany set itself the goal of distracting the USSR and Turkey from the Balkans and published these documents in order to create a conflict between you and the Turks, for the same purpose they want to worsen Soviet‐Iranian relations. Finally, and most importantly, I doubt that Turkey and poor Iran would think of any action aimed at the detriment of the interests of the USSR. ʺ to this, I pointed out to the afghan that newspapers such as Izvestia and Pravda publish only such information that is reliable, and comments on the published documents reflect the official point of view ***. The afghan agreed that perhaps the documents were really authentic, and said: “the main enemy of Germany was France, and she dragged England into the war, because it is known that chamberlain was ready to make concessions to Hitler, to give him some more territory in Europe and in the colonies. Therefore, after the conclusion of the Soviet‐German treaty **** France was enraged, and from here I admit that she and her ambassador to Ankara Massigli were plotting something against the USSR. But the Turks have nothing to do with it. ʺ in the future, Faiza

Mohamed spread for a long time about the application of protocol no. 2114 by Turkey as a sign of friendship with the USSR. 

From the whole conversation it is clear that the afghan ambassador to Ankara is a brightly pro‐British figure and, against the background of close Anglo‐Turkish relations, is trying to shield the Turks in connection with the documents published against them. ‐ Vinogradov , Avp rf, f. 059, on. 1, p. 314, d. 2162, l. 59‐60.