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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 the diary of the plenipotentiary representative of the USSR in Germany a. A. Shkvartsev
Sent to comrade Molotov, Dekanozov, gen. Secretariat
April 26, 1940
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Ribbentrop, after his failure in Scandinavia, makes a lot of noise in the south‐east.
Ribbentrop then touched on Turkeyʹs position in modern warfare, calling this position not sympathetic to the Germans. It is believed, he said, that the Turks would open the Dardanelles to the British and French. It is difficult to say whether the Turks will agree to this act so easily, Ribbentrop concluded.
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Shkvartsev
Hdl rf, f. 082, on. 23, p. 95, d. 5, l. 43‐45.