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A., Falin V.M. The Score of the Second World War. Who started the war and when? Moscow: Veche, 2009. P. 151.
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Those who are at least a little bit familiar with the principles of the English policy are bound to know that the main principle is to fight using others. Britain has always tried to 'get rid of its rivals with the help of other countries. Spain was weakened by the revolt in the Netherlands then Holland was defeated on land by the French. When France became the main rival of the Anglo-Saxons, she was eliminated' by Russian troops in 1812-1814. The principle did not change later. In the First World War the two enemies of England – Germany and Russia – mutually destroyed each other. The same principle was going to be applied to the Second World War. The following fact is rather telling: on 27th April, 1939 the law on universal military service was passed in Great Britain. But it remained on paper even after the world conflict had started. It is enough to say that 24-year-old Brits were only asked to arrive at recruiting stations as late as March 1940 – that is six months (!) after London declared war on Germany (on 3 September 1939). (Maysky I.M. Memoirs of a Soviet Diplomat. Tashkent, 1980. P.387). When Hitler was destroying Poland, the English were dropping leaflets over German territory. Over the first month of the war they dropped 18 million leaflets. This was how the British helped Poland. The English wanted to stay 'second' and avoid fighting themselves.
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http://www.vesti.ru/doc.html?id=353153.
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Apparently, Lehmann's supervisors had diplomatic cover and were deported from Germany together with all Soviet diplomats. This by itself provides food for thought. We were so convinced that there was no threat coming from Germany that there were no other ways of contacting this agent!
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http://kp.ru/daily/24478.3/635042.
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http://kp.ni/daily/24478.3/635042.
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http://kp.ni/daily/24478.3/635042.
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We will mention in passing what the author of the memoirs said about England's attitude towards the Reich: '…In England there was no sign of negative or hostile feeling towards the Third Reich. On the contrary, the press did its best to avoid what the Nazis called 'stigmatisation. The only exception was the communist newspaper 'Daily Worker' which was, however, impossible to buy at any stand… The Brown Book of the Reichstag Fire and other anti-Nazi books were normally only sold under the counter and could not be seen in big book shops.'
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In the history of recruiting Soviet spies by foreign special services, in the majority of cases it happened abroad, where the Soviet spies were working under a diplomatic or a different type of cover. One of the most famous examples – Suvorov-Rezun, who got into a honey trap. Typical.
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http://militera.lib.ru/memo/german/putHts_vg/03.html – Original:
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Ibid. P. 260.
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Lord Vansittart was the Permanent Under-Secretary at the Foreign Office.
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Ibid.
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The USA went even further than that. At the beginning of the war with Japan, the Americans imprisoned not only Japanese citizens but even American citizens of Japanese origin. And they kept them in jail until the autumn of 1945, that is until the very end of the Second World War.
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While Ribbentrop was in prison during the Nuremberg Trials, as a result of which he would be hanged, he managed to write some memoirs. Speaking about his trip to Moscow, he wrote the following: 'At first, I suggested sending another authorised representative to Moscow, and the first person I thought of was Goering'.
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Paul Schmidt did not fly in the same Junkers as Ribbentrop but on board a different aircraft.
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