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The Russian Foreign Intelligence Service declassified documents about the plans of France and Great Britain to strike at the USSR in 1940 year

The Russian Foreign Intelligence Service declassified documents about the plans of France and Great Britain to strike at the USSR in 1940 yearGreat Britain and France hatched plans for a joint strike against the Soviet Union weakened by the war from the territory of Finland in 1940 year. This is stated in archival documents declassified by the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service..

The Foreign Intelligence Service released some of the documents from its own archives, by publishing them on the website of the Presidential Library. According to part of the materials, France and Great Britain were preparing a joint plan of attack on the USSR, intending to strike at the Soviet troops weakened by the war with the Finns just at the end of the Soviet-Finnish war, ie. at 1940 year.

According to agency data, received by the 5th department of the Main Directorate of State Security of the NKVD of the USSR (foreign intelligence), in Paris and London planned to weaken the power of the USSR, by prolonging the war with Finland, then strike at the Soviet Union. This did not exclude, that Germany will join the British-French alliance, although this option was considered unlikely. At the same time, the invasion was planned not only from the northern direction.

During the Soviet-Finnish war, the West provided Finland with comprehensive support., not only supplying weapons and equipment, but also sending their units to fight on the side of the Finns, having formed a whole international division. At the same time, Great Britain and France formed an expeditionary force to be sent to Finland, he was supposed to take part in the war against the USSR and provide a strike from its territory.

A strike was being prepared from the south, joint British-French troops were supposed to destroy the Baku oil fields, depriving the USSR of oil. To do this, in the Middle East in 1939-40 troops have been concentrated, forming an impact fist. However, the plans of the West were not destined to come true., Soviet-Finnish war ended 13 Martha 1940 of the year, and Great Britain and France did not dare to attack the USSR on their own.

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