Deep Secrets of WWII Revealed! Documents Detailing Non-Aggression Pact Finally Declassified!

The most mysterious diplomatic paper of the 20th century was shown to the general public for the first time today in Moscow. It's the original of the classified protocol of the German-Soviet Non-Aggression Pact. This is one of the hundreds of exhibits displayed at the exhibition dedicated to the beginning of WWII.

The most mysterious diplomatic paper of the 20th century was shown to the general public for the first time today in Moscow. It's the original of the classified protocol of the German-Soviet Non-Aggression Pact. This is one of the hundreds of exhibits displayed at the exhibition dedicated to the beginning of WWII. Vladimir Putin noted that they caution people against disunity, selfishness, and political short-sightedness.

The main aim of the exhibition is to try to understand the extremely complex atmosphere of the months preceding the war. It's based on secret correspondence, residents' intelligence reports, MFA's declassified documents.

 

Sergey Lavrov, Russian Foreign Minister: "This exhibition is valuable because in the neat language of implacable facts; it shows who pushed the world to the dreadful catastrophe. In the hope to ensure their security at the expense of others, Western capitals made a selfish and simultaneously short-sighted choice to placate Hitler's regime".

Sergey Naryshkin, Director of the Foreign Intelligence Service: "It's impossible to ensure one's security at the expense of others, let alone obtaining it by haggling with the aggressor. This gorgeous exhibition is about this and many other things".

In 1939, the world was like a disturbed hive. War was inevitable. Everybody was trying to negotiate with everyone, but nobody trusted anyone.

Valery Artsybashev, curator of the exhibition: "The Englishmen proposed to the Germans to sign a non-aggression pact and also demarcate their areas of interest in Europe and beyond".

By that time, the Munich Agreement of the Western countries with Germany had been in effect for a year. The non-aggression agreement between Poland and Germany had been in effect for five years. Poland even took part in Hitler's partition of Czechoslovakia by annexing Tesin and surrounding area. But the modern West doesn't remember it. They now remember only the German-Soviet Non-Aggression Pact. It was the last of many similar treaties, basically a common agreement of neutrality. Its protocols were published long ago. The classified protocols were kept in Stalin's strongbox, then in the Central Committee of the CPSU. The German original was destroyed in an air attack on Berlin in March of 1944. So, I'm holding not just the sole copy but probably one of the most important historic, international documents in human history. The speculations that the partition of Poland supposedly was a part of those classified protocols are almost 80 years old, too. But here are the exact words concerning Poland: "What borders this state will have can be defined only in the course of further development of the political situation." The latter was rapidly slipping into the collapse of world order. Without stopping to hold secret negotiations with Hitler, the English and the French went to Moscow.

Head of the Soviet General Staff Shaposhnikov presented a plan of military cooperation to them. But they were strictly instructed to drag out the negotiations. They rejected proposals to create collective security forces, then they just left Moscow. At the same time, Poland rejected unilateral assistance of the USSR.

Sergey Mironenko, academic director of the Russian State Archive: "The USSR was ready to help to repel aggression by sending its troops. But the Polish refused point-blank to admit Soviet troops".

Meanwhile, Red Army intelligence managed to obtain the secret plan "Weiss": "Germany is currently preparing an attack on Poland to be carried out in July or August".

Great Britain knew about the Wehrmacht's upcoming attack on Poland, of course. But it decided to sacrifice Warsaw and the security guarantees it gave to Poland to clear the path to the east for Hitler. Here's alarmed Foreign Minister Molotov warning the Polish ambassador Grzhibovsky in a personal note: "Poland has turned into a convenient buffer state for the easy and rapid advancement of third-party countries' troops to the USSR's borders".

When on September 17th, the Red Army supposedly seized peaceful Poland, the latter had already ceased to exist as a state. But there was an opened Soviet border, close to which there were Wehrmacht troops. In 1939, they managed to push the defensive line for 120-180 miles away all along the Western borders — from the Baltic Sea to the Black Sea and thus took the heat off Moscow, Leningrad, Kiev, and Minsk. The year of 1939 was when not only the war but the tough, diplomatic game began. Every historic successor of the participants in those events should remember about it and turn to impartial historic documents for that.

Dmitry Kaistro, Maxim Shchepilov, Yury Gonchar, Pavel Kostrikov for Vesti.