By VITALY CHERKASOV
Volgograd – PRAVDA-Russian
No other document of the Stalin era has received so much harsh criticism as the "Treaty of Non Aggression between Germany and the USSR." Our foes say that it was a deal between Hitler and Stalin that allegedly resulted in the division of Poland and the start of World War II. However, nobody mentions the fact that all of the Western powers did everything possible to direct German aggression Eastward in the 1930’s and they succeeded. No one says in the West that the non-aggression pact between Poland and Germany was signed way back in 1934, long before the same document was signed by Germany and the Soviet Union. Furthermore, the Polish Government at that time conducted secret talks with Germany regarding joint actions against the USSR in March of 1939, not to mention the very shameful Munich agreement between the Western States and Germany, which led to the destruction of Czechoslovakia and to Austria’s forced unification with Germany.
The second highest-ranking officer of Hitler’s Reich, Rudolph Hess, landed in England on a parachute in May of 1940 in order to talk to the British government about signing a peace treaty with Germany. German General Rumstedt wept when he saw the remainder English expeditionary corps that invaded France at Dieppe, boarding their boats and leaving for England, right under the nose of his victorious tanks, which could have wiped out the whole English force to a man. This German General did not know as to why he received the order to stop wiping out this English force. It wasn’t Hitler’s abstract humanity at all; it was Hitler’s wish to make England quit the war forever, by means of signing a peace treaty with Germany.
In addition, the documents about Hess’s visit to England are still kept secret, after 63 years. Why? However, Stalin was aware of the situation very well. And he knew that the anti-fascist war was inevitable. Stalin was not surprised about this, even foreseeing it far back in 1927. When the USSR-Stalin signed the non-aggression treaty, they was simply trying to delay the day when the war was to start, in order to get more prepared for repulsing the enemy’s attack.
He knew that on July 22, 1940, Hitler intended to start the war in the autumn of the same year. On December 18 of that year, Hitler signed the "Barbarossa Plan", dating the attack on the USSR as of May 13, but the time of this attack was delayed for four weeks on April 3, 1941. On April 20th the German High Command found out that their railway companies were unable to deploy all of the troops by the beginning of this plan.
The USSR’s major news agency TASS informed the people on June 14 that the Soviet Government did not believe the rumors of the coming war. This message was timed for Hitler’s meeting devoted to the Barbarossa Plan, when Germany’s commanders made their reports! This detail proves that very cleverly Stalin gave Hitler the impression that he was watching his every step. Stalin and the Soviet High Command analyzed the interests and intentions of all the countries that were going to be involved in the coming war.
Therefore the leaders of Germany, Turkey and Japan thought that they would win the war on three fronts. So, it was vital for Germany to establish peace with England, as there were high government forces in England that wanted this March to the East at all costs. Germany knew how disastrous war could be on two fronts.
What about Japan in these plans?
It’s actions depended on the ones of England: if England pulled out from the war, Japan, with its huge Pacific fleet was going to attack the USSR. If England remained in a state of war against Germany, Japan was then going to attack the United States. Therefore, it happened that England’s position was the first priority in this diplomatic game. If it waged war with Germany, then the USSR had only one front and the natural allies that came with it: the USA and England. If England signed the Armistice as its leadership was bent on doing, then the USSR’s defeat was inevitable.
Most likely, Stalin knew that England was not going to pull out from the war with Germany, because then the likelihood of England losing its colonial empire would be a foregone conclusion to fascism. Western countries did not want to struggle, but the situation was more dangerous for them in losing all of their colonies after the war and face people’s rebellion at home.
Stalin was pre-occupied with the role of the USSR in the coming war, whether it was going to be a victim or be called an aggressor?
The fate of our country depended on a very simple question: who will attack whom? If the Soviet Union had attacked first, the powerful Western propaganda machine would have portrayed our country as the most horrific monster in the world. It has been now 61 years, but Western ideologists and Soviet traitors are still trying to convince the world that the USSR planned to attack Germany. However, the whole world saw, that, on June 22 that Hitler was the aggressor.
This is Stalin’s greatest accomplishment!
Click here to return to the March 2003 index.