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About I.V. A lot has been said and written to Stalin. And good and bad. But few people know about yet another gift of Joseph Vissarionovich: he was able to foresee the development of events. And sometimes many times decades ahead. As evidence, let me suggest Your attention the story of A.M. Kollontai, which in the described period was the ambassador of the USSR to Sweden. In March 1938, the situation the world was very complex and disturbing. Fascist Germany on in the eyes of the whole world unceremoniously captured Austria. And in September encouraged by general silence, the Nazis joined their the territory is also the Sudetenland. Seeing the Nazis inexorably approaching the borders of the USSR, the Soviet government began to search allies in the West. However, the Anglo-Franco-Soviet negotiations, scheduled for May – August 1939, were ripped off, ours the proposal to create an anti-Hitler coalition failed. Such conditions the leadership of the Soviet Union, seeking to alienate the military threat to its borders, Germany accepted the offer to conclude non-aggression pact, which was signed in Moscow on August 23. A a week later, on September 1, 1939, Germany attacked Poland, starting the second world war. Understanding that peace with Germany is not eternal, Soviet leaders tried to protect themselves from a blow in the back, bringing negotiations with representatives to a favorable outcome Finland, started in Moscow. But they walked tight, Finns frankly pulled time. It was at this time A.M. Kollontai and came to Moscow to get first-hand information about the actual status and related instructions. However, her conversation with V.M. Molotov gave little. Vyacheslav Mikhailovich was sure that the Finns we quickly break off the horns and there’s nothing more to talk about with them. However, as shown by hostilities that began in the same 1939 year, the victory in that “little war” was given to us with great blood. Frustrated by this reception, Kollontai went to the hotel, intending to complete all business in Moscow as soon as possible so that again depart to Stockholm. But then the phone rang and the secretary said that Comrade Stalin invited her to the Kremlin. In a few minutes, a specially sent machine dominated Kollontai from the main Entrance of the Moscow Hotel to the Kremlin. The owner of the cabinet got up from behind desktop, stepped towards her, said hello to the hand and invited to sit down. And he began to pace out of habit cabinet. And as if anticipating possible questions, he spoke that Six-month negotiations with the Finns led to nothing. In connection with By this, Stalin advised intensifying the work of the Soviet embassy in study the situation in the Scandinavian countries, track German agents penetration into these countries, trying their best prevent conflict with Finland. However, Stalin said, “if if he cannot be prevented, then he will be short-lived. “Time “persuasion” and “negotiation” is over. “We have to practically prepare to rebuff, to the war with Hitler, “he added. The conversation continued more than two hours, Kollontai recalled. Stalin during this time touched on many issues. The leader was especially worried rearmament of the army, as well as the role of the rear in the war, the need increased vigilance at the border and within the country. Emphasized that the future war will fall primarily on the shoulders of the Russian people. After that, Stalin began to think aloud about the role of the individual in history, about the past and future, touched many names – from Macedonian to Napoleon, also remembered Alexander Nevsky, Dmitry Donskoy, Ivan Kalitou, Ivan the Terrible, Peter the Great, Alexander Suvorov, Mikhail Kutuzov. He graduated from Marx and Lenin. And then, as I wrote Kollontai, literally said the following: “Many of the affairs of our party and people will be perverted and spat upon primarily abroad, and in our country too. Zionism, eager for world domination, will be brutally avenge us for our successes and achievements. He is still considers Russia as a barbaric country, as a raw materials appendage. And my name will also be defamed, slandered. I will attribute a lot atrocities. World Zionism will by all means strive to destroy our Union so that Russia can never rise again. The power of the USSR �- in the friendship of peoples. The point of struggle will be directed primarily at the breakdown of this friendship, to break the outskirts of Russia. Here it is necessary admit, we have not done everything yet. There is still a big field of work. FROM with particular force nationalism will raise its head. He is for a while crush internationalism and patriotism, only for a while. National groups within nations and conflicts will arise. Will appear many pygmy leaders, traitors within their nations. In general, in future development will go in more complex and even frantic ways, turns will be extremely cool. The point is that especially the East will get excited, there will be sharp contradictions with the West … “All Stalin hoped that time would pass and new generations again raise the banner of their fathers and grandfathers, give them their due in full. This the conversation, Kollontai later recalled, made indelible on her impression helped navigate the whirlpool soon terrible events have come. It remains for us to add to the following. It turns out I.V. Stalin was wonderful aware of the impending war with Germany, according to our reports the scouts even knew exactly when exactly it would begin. But did not want to believe in it, hoped to somehow delay its beginning in time complete the rearmament of the Red Army. And yet he didn’t have time … About that that Germany attacked suddenly was said in June 1941, apparently, in order to at least somehow explain why literally with the first minutes of the war, our army was in such a difficult situation. And these words, mind you, were not spoken by Stalin, but by Molotov. Himself Joseph Vissarionovich once again demonstrated his remarkable insight in the spring of 1945, at the Potsdam Conference, when invited the heads of the USA and Great Britain to discuss the issue of the division … The moon. They even thought they misheard or Stalin himself made a reservation and we are talking about the division of Germany. But he repeated: “Oh section of Germany, we have already agreed. I’m talking specifically about the moon. “And emphasized that the USSR has its views on this celestial object. Here when, it turns out, the lunar race actually began. And possess N.S. Khrushchev with the foresight of his predecessor, in 2009 probably would have celebrated the 40th anniversary of the Soviet landing on the moon astronauts, not American astronauts. S. Slavin
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