STALIN
August 20, 1939 Moscow
Hitler thinks he has tricked me into signing the non-aggression pact. I believed I have tricked him instead. I already know war with Germany is inevitable. All I need is time. So as long as Hitler gets his hands full in a long protracted war with the Allies, the Red Army will be ready. I read Mein Kampf, this pact isn’t friendly, only strategic. We can delay a war with the Nazis and use the time for rearmament. Hitler’s obsession with Lebensraum in the east clearly marks the Soviet Union as a target. It is inevitable. We are secure, depending on the war now between Germany and the Allies.
STALIN
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