On the Eve of
the Great Patriotic War
September 1, 1939 – June 22, 1941
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Letter from J. Stalin to Director of the Kuomintang Chiang Kai-shek about China’s situation after the signature of the Tripartite Pact and the need to strengthen the Chinese National Army
16 October 1940
Russian State Archive of Social and Political History
Coll. 558, ser. 11, fold. 326, ff. 14–15.
Original. Autograph by A. Poskrebyshev. Corrections – autographs by A. Poskrebyshev and J. Stalin