Alleged Stalin's Speech On August 19, 1939
A secret speech was allegedly given by Joseph Stalin, on 19 August 1939, to members of the Politburo of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, Politburo, wherein he justified the Foreign policy of the Soviet Union, Soviet strategy to promote World War II, military conflict in Europe, which would be beneficial for Eastern Bloc, the future territorial expansion of the Communist system. The strategy included Soviet-Nazi collaboration and the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact. The historicity of the speech is still the subject of academic debate. Plausible textual evidence of this speech found in various reputable archives has been academically studied and published, however no formal first-hand evidence of a Politburo ''meeting'' held on 19 August 1939 or the delivery of the quoted speech has yet been proven. The Russian version of the speech can be found at the Centre for Historic Documents of the former Special Archives of the USSR.Carl O. Nordling, Did Stalin deliver his alleged speech o ...
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Joseph Stalin
Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin (born Ioseb Besarionis dze Jughashvili; – 5 March 1953) was a Georgian revolutionary and Soviet political leader who led the Soviet Union from 1924 until his death in 1953. He held power as General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (1922–1952) and Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Soviet Union (1941–1953). Initially governing the country as part of a collective leadership, he consolidated power to become a dictator by the 1930s. Ideologically adhering to the Leninist interpretation of Marxism, he formalised these ideas as Marxism–Leninism, while his own policies are called Stalinism. Born to a poor family in Gori in the Russian Empire (now Georgia), Stalin attended the Tbilisi Spiritual Seminary before joining the Marxist Russian Social Democratic Labour Party. He edited the party's newspaper, ''Pravda'', and raised funds for Vladimir Lenin's Bolshevik faction via robberies, kidnappings and protection ...
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