Stalin, Vol. II: Waiting for Hitler, 1928-1941 by Stephen Kotkin

Author:Stephen Kotkin [Kotkin, Stephen]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: history, war
ISBN: 9780713999457
Amazon: 0713999454
Publisher: Allen Lane
Published: 2017-10-26T04:00:00+00:00

CODA: LITTLE CORNER, SATURDAY, JUNE 21, 1941

The only certain thing is that we face either a battle of global proportions between the Third Reich and the Soviet Empire or the most gigantic case of blackmail in world history.

VILHELM ASSARASSON, Swedish envoy in Moscow, telegram to Stockholm, June 21, 19411

Suddenly addressing me with “thou,” he said, “Thou must always keep touch with the Russian emperor; there, no conflict is necessary.”

OTTO VON BISMARCK, recalling the words of a dying Kaiser Wilhelm I2

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