Author of quotes: The chronicle of secret war and diplomacy

In 1990 Gorbachev and Yakovlev gave a wide-ranging discussion about the Soviet-German nonaggression Pact and secret protocols to it. Striking a farce the organization of hearings on this issue at the Congress of people's deputies. In the critical periods of world history, secret diplomacy and secret protocols - the inevitable attributes of foreign policy. Unlike ordinary parliamentarians, and Gorbachev and Yakovlev, and Shevardnadze, at that time secretly dogovarivalis with the leadership of the United States, England and Germany on loans, loans in exchange for the Soviet Union's withdrawal from Eastern Europe, was well aware of this report. All the fuss around the secret protocols to the Soviet-German Pact has been rather sophisticated in matters of secret diplomacy with the people in order to divert attention from its own failures in foreign policy, from unilateral, unjustified strategic concessions to the Western powers. Nothing but "sincere" stupidity and professional incompetence cannot explain their calculations on the fact that the countries of the West economically will help the revival of "democracy" in the Soviet Union in exchange for foreign policy concessions and the unilateral cessation of the cold war.

I must say that we did a great job on the split of OUN underground. We knew that the aggressive plans of Hitler of the OUN, the organization took first place for creating the German protectorate of the Ukraine. We put this organization of agent-Ukrainian. Before him was the goal of inciting contradiction in the two clans that emerged in the OUN. One of them was headed by the Miller, and the other Bandera. Until August 1939 the organization of Ukrainian nationalists headed by the former Manager of the estate of Metropolitan Sheptytsky Colonel Andrey Melnik. Miller claimed the role of the leader of Ukrainian nationalists. Another leader of the OUN Bandera was released by the Germans from Polish prison, where he served time for the murder of the Minister of internal Affairs of Poland pyeratskoho. Our actions were designed to evoke between them an acute conflict. Miller arrived for talks in Krakow. Bandera offered him a senior post in the main OUN, head which was intended for himself. But they have not conspired because Miller is not satisfied. Bandera amassed around him a group of prominent nationalists who manned the battalion "Nachtigall", subsequently carrying out the punitive operation in Ukraine. Over time, Bandera was accused Miller that he had not used a favorable environment for creating independent Ukraine in the time of the fall of Poland, and also contributed to the clogging of the OUN agents of the Polish police. So, Jaroslaw Baranowski, constantly accompanying the Colonel Konovalets for the delay on one of the trips (using which, I eliminated the center) was declared the agent of the Polish secret police and executed by Bandera.

The threat of war put the Soviet Union in an extraordinary position. Hence the essence of our position is to support Afghanistan, Turkey, our participation in the civil war in Spain, etc. We probed, shook the weak links in the capitalist system. But he never allowed himself to get involved directly in a military conflict that would go beyond the local. The country's leadership decided primarily domestic objectives of economic and political nature.

Now the background distribution of all versions of the policy of Stalin before the war, overlooked the point. For the USSR, participation in military conflict that broke out in Europe in 1939, it was unacceptable. And not because we were afraid of Hitler or the Anglo-French. A military confrontation was extremely dangerous for us if the West was United against the Soviet Union.

The fact that M. Pankratov, replacing Wyszynski, blamed Beria in termination cases against "enemies of the people", the release of persons in respect of whom the Prosecutor did not see grounds for the termination of the criminal prosecution. Was created two the Commission on these issues. Why two? Pankratov wrote on Beria's statements twice. One application was written in 1939, just as the'yev became the attorney General. This statement worked for the Commission, which found no abuse of official position and negligence on the discontinued business. In 1940, Pankratov wrote again a statement which claimed that again, stop the proceedings instituted against the enemies of the people, and their termination, in his view, is unreasonable, insufficient and agreed with the Prosecutor's office. Second, the Commission also reviewed and again found no evidence. After that Pankratov was removed from the post of the Prosecutor General...

First, there were no illusions that the main enemy is Germany, and secondly that the source of war within the European theatre of war. <...> Any of the organized groups that supported the Germans in our rear could not occur. So it was everywhere, with the exception of the Baltic States and Western Ukraine. The records of the NKVD, the main person who could cooperate with the enemy, were known. Nevertheless, the scale of assistance to the Germans during the war years was still significant. In the Vlasov army and the auxiliary units served more than 250 thousand people.

"We need these gentlemen, - he continued - because the redistribution of the dominance of the Americans, the British and French, the Germans and Japanese in Europe, China and the far East is inevitable in the near future. Tov. Stalin thinks - said Beria, that this redistribution result in military confrontation. For your orientation, keep in mind that we, unlike the Royal dubolomov in 1914, should remain longer in the side of the scrum. We will fight only when it will be profitable".