Baltic

Internal report from Chief of the 5th Red Army Directorate I. Proskurov to Soviet People’s Commissar of Defence K. Voroshilov with attached materials about anti-Soviet activities in the Baltic countries and the recruitment of Estonian volunteers for fighting in Finland

27 January 1940

Russian State Military Archive

Coll. 33987, ser. 3а, fold. 1306, ff. 50–58.

Report – original, attachment – certified copy

Information letter from Soviet military attaché in Lithuania I. Korotkikh to the Office of Foreign Relations of the Soviet People’s Commissariat of Defence about his conversation with the daughter of the Lithuanian President, the anti-Soviet activities of the Lithuanian government, and the start of German-Lithuanian trade talks

9 March 1940

Russian State Military Archive

Coll. 33987, ser. 3а, fold. 1306, ff. 77–78.

Certified copy

Cipher telegram from Soviet People’s Commissar of Foreign Affairs V. Molotov to Soviet plenipotentiary representatives in Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia and Finland about the attitude of the Soviet government to the activities of the Baltic Entente after the signature of mutual assistance treaties between the USSR and the Baltic countries

14 June 1940

Archive of Foreign Policy of the Russian Federation

Coll. 059, ser. 1, box 339, fold. 2319, ff. 125–126.

Original

Special report of the 5th Red Army Directorate ‘Stance of the USA on the war in Europe and on the USSR’

22 June 1940

Russian State Military Archive

Coll. 37977, ser. 1, fold. 693, ff. 38–39

Original

Report from Soviet People’s Commissar of Defence S. Timoshenko and Chief of the General Staff of the Red Army B. Shaposhnikov to the Politburo of the Soviet Communist Party Central Committee and Council of People’s Commissars of the Soviet Union with recommendations on the reorganisation of Western military districts and the general strengthening of the Soviet Armed Forces

4 July 1940

Russian State Archive of Contemporary History

Coll. 3, ser. 50, fold. 262, ff. 75–85.

Original

Cipher telegram from Berlin to the 5th Red Army Directorate about the attitude of foreign military attachés to the transfer of German troops from West to East, the interest of Germans in Eastern Europe, and their possible actions against the USSR and Great Britain (with an attached note from the 5th Red Army Directorate)

11 July 1940

Russian State Military Archive

coll. 37977, ser. 1, fold. 693, ff. 85–93.

Cipher telegram – certified copy, note – original

Note of Soviet People’s Commissar of Foreign Affairs V. Molotov ‘Some Directives for the Berlin Trip’

9 November 1940

Russian State Archive of Social and Political History

Coll. 82, ser. 2, fold. 1161, ff. 147–155.

Original. Autograph of V. Molotov

А. Hitler’s remarks about Operation ‘Barbarossa’

21 December 1940

Russian State Military Archive

coll. 1280k, ser. 2, fold. 26, ff. 7–8.

Copy. In German

Directive of the Wehrmacht High Command regarding the introduction of an occupation regime on the territory of the USSR

13 March 1941

State Archives of the Russian Federation

coll. R‑7445, ser. 2, fold. 141, ff. 115–122.

Original. In German

From the report of the Soviet People’s Commissariat of Foreign Trade for 1940: on the development of Soviet foreign trade during the war in Europe, the expansion of re-export and transit operations, and relations with the USSR’s main trade partners – Germany and the USA

14 June 1941

Russian State Archive of Economy

Coll. 413, ser. 12, fold. 4178, ff. 1–65.

Copy