Big Lie - so called Stalin's speech August 19, 1939
The big Lie;
On August 19, 1939, Stalin delivered a speech to the Politburo, which said that "we can prevent a world war, but we will not do this, since the war between the Reich and the Entente is beneficial to us."
How they stated;
“This is a transcript of Stalin's speech at a meeting of the Politburo and the leadership of the Comintern on August 19, 1939, four days before the signing of the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact. The leader gives orientation to the sidekicks.
The text is known from a French copy, probably made by someone from the Comintern. The original is still classified, but so far no one has tried to declare the text a fake."Dmitry Khmelnitsky Peace to the bitter end. Enemies and friends of Viktor Suvorov.The main theses: we can now prevent war, but it is not profitable for us. If we come to an agreement with Germany, she will attack Poland and England and France will go to war. Unrest and disturbance will begin in Europe, and "... we can hope for our profitable entry into the war." War is needed because in peacetime we have no chance of seizing power in Europe. Neither a quick victory nor a quick defeat of Germany is to our advantage. The longer the war lasts, the more chances we have.
“Stalin seriously pondered which outcome of the war unleashed with his assistance would be more profitable for him. Murphy - and this episode of his book, perhaps, will receive the least unambiguous assessment - for the first time presents the reader with an English translation of a speech that Stalin allegedly delivered on August 19, 1939, on the eve of the official agreement with Hitler. In his speech, he stated: if, as a result of a protracted war, the West overcomes Germany, then this country will ripen for Sovietization; if Germany wins a protracted war, then it will be too weakened to resist the USSR, and then it will probably be possible to establish a communist regime in France. Thus, the Soviet Union wins anyway - hence his conclusion: 'we must do our best to keep the war going as long as possible, exhausting both sides'." Blindness of Stalin ("The Weekly Standard", USA)
On November 28, 1939, the French agency Havas (since 1944 Agence France Presse) spread the message that on August 19, 1939, four days before the signing of the Soviet-German non-aggression pact, I.V. Stalin urgently convened the Politburo of the Central Committee of the All-Union Communist Party of Bolsheviks and the leadership of the Comintern, and delivered a speech at this meeting.
Immediately, in a very crude form, this text was declared as fake by Stalin himself on the pages of Pravda on November 30, 1939:
“This message from the Havas agency, like many of his other messages, is a lie. I, of course, cannot know in which particular café this lie was fabricated." Stalin, About the false report of the Gavas agency
In 1958, the same was done by the German historian E. Jeckel, who studied the history of the document in detail. In 2004 - Moscow historian S. Sluch in the article "Stalin's speech, which was not."
Strictly speaking, there is nothing in the "transcript" that could not be subtracted from newspaper comments in the autumn of 1939.
It well "predicts" the events between the expected date of the Politburo meeting and the date of publication of the text of the "transcript", but this is not difficult if the text is also fabricated at the end of November.
As S. Sluch writes, “one of the “primary sources” of the text of “Stalin’s speech” can include, for example, an article in “Epok” dated 11/2/1939, which, in particular, said:
“The Soviet-German treaty of August 23 aims to lure Hitler into a trap ... The owner of the Kremlin ... also wants the war to be long, because the longer the war continues, the more opponents will weaken. When the end of the war comes, "the victorious democratic powers will be no less exhausted than Germany, then the moment will come for Stalin to act."
The Geneva correspondent of the Havas agency A. Ruffin, who later claimed that he had obtained the text of Stalin's speech (which is quite consistent with the agency's initial information indicating that the text was received from Moscow through Geneva), said that he wrote down the text from the words of a certain high-ranking faces. Thus, even according to A. Ruffen, there can be no talk of a real transcript.
A detailed study by Igor Petrov is currently available regarding the possible ways in which this fake appeared and spread.
There are no arguments in favor of the authenticity of the text. Much speaks against authenticity -and the presence in Stalin's "speech" of Latinisms, which was never observed in him; and the fact that transcripts of speeches at Politburo meetings were kept only in the rarest of cases; and the fact that there was no meeting of the Politburo on August 19 at all - there was only a minor decision of the Politburo, dated August 19, but, as is well known, by that time formal meetings of the Politburo were already a rarity and issues were resolved, as a rule, by questioning the leading "five" (Stalin, Molotov, Voroshilov, Kaganovich, Mikoyan) ,either at meetings in a narrow circle in Stalin's office, and only retroactively formalized as decisions of the Politburo (in 1939, only two officially formalized meetings of the Politburo took place - on January 29 and December 17, and 2855 decisions were made on its behalf).
In the visitors' book at Stalin's secretariat on August 19, none of the leaders of the Comintern is listed (in the list of visitors for that day: Molotov, Mikoyan, secretary of the Presidium of the USSR Armed Forces A. Gorkin, future plenipotentiary in Germany A. Shkvartsev). However, even the preamble to the Havas publication stated that none of the foreign communists, including Dimitrov, was invited. In addition to Stalin himself, Zhdanov and Manuilsky were members of the "Russian section" of the Comintern - neither one nor the other was with Stalin on August 19.
Finally, there is the question of information leakage paths. If Stalin delivered this speech, it was in the presence of only a few people, so the circle of suspects must have been very narrow. And as far as we know Stalin, he could not ignore such an obvious case of disloyalty. The heads should have rolled, but they didn't. Consequently, there was most likely no leak of top-secret information.
“Analysis of all its known variants gives grounds for the conclusion that there is one main or original text, distributed on November 28, 1939 by the Havas agency, and then published in the Revue de Droit International de Sciences Diplomatiques et Politiques, and its revised version, which turned out to be not later December 23, 1940 at the disposal of the intelligence and counterintelligence service under the Vichy government, i.e. that version of Stalin's speech, which was subsequently discovered in Moscow."
The reference in the accompanying paper to it to instructions on the use of the text of "Stalin's speech" by officers of the secret service gives grounds for the assumption that both articles by Ruffin, as well as the publication of this text in de La Pradelle's book, were published not without the participation of this special service.
There can be only one conclusion: there is no evidence of a connection between Stalin and the "transcript" of his speech on August 19, 1939.
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