On the Eve of
the Great Patriotic War
September 1, 1939 – June 22, 1941
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Cipher telegram from Soviet Plenipotentiary Representative in Japan K. Smetanin to the Soviet People’s Commissariat of Foreign Affairs about reports in the Japanese press regarding a possible pact between Japan, Germany, Italy and the USSR
4 September 1940
Russian State Archive of Social and Political History
Coll. 558, ser. 11, fold. 216, f. 12.
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