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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: conversation between the 1st counselor of the USSR embassy in Germany m. G. Tikhomirov and the representative of the German air force m. F. Kleis

Sent to comrade Molotov, comrade Dekanozov, gen. Secretariat

March 4, 1940

The domination of the USSR in Finland does not prejudice our interests. The Baltic sea is an inland sea. Even if, for example, the USSR wanted to leave the Baltic sea, its path would always be closed by our submarines. We do not think that after the defeat of Finland the USSR will threaten Sweden and Norway, and if so, the question of our struggle against the USSR disappears. I see a threat to the USSR, Kleis continues, not in the Baltic sea, but in the black sea. The Turks are turning their backs on the USSR. Here, in the black sea, there may be a threat to the USSR. It would be nice if the USSR (northern part), Italy and Spain were masters in the Mediterranean Sea, a small French fleet could be allowed.