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Selected Secret Documents from Soviet Foreign Policy Documents Archives - 1919 to 1941Concentrated 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; talk of the plenipotentiary representative of the USSR in the Turkish republic of ca. Vinogradova with the ambassador of the kingdom of Yugoslavia in Turkey Shumenkovich
Sent to comrade Molotov, comrade Vyshinsky, general secretariat
April 23, 1941 secret
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Shumenkovich said that he only knows that the Turks stubbornly refute the existence of negotiations between them and the Germans on this issue. However, he said that he considered it quite likely that Von Papen would bring certain proposals to the Turks upon his return to
Ankara. Shumenkovich said that, in his opinion, the Turks would not accept any proposals from Germany. “there is no doubt that Turkey can enter the scene if the Germans fail to approach the Suez through Egypt. Germany may then try to secure its way through Turkey. I am of the opinion that the Turks will not accept any proposals from Germany. ʺ
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Plenipotentiary of the USSR in Turkey Vinogradov avp rf, f. 0132, on. 24a, p. 236, d. 7, l. 281‐285.