According to declassified documents published by the Presidential Library, in early 1940, Britain and France planned to launch attacks on the USSR from the territory of Finland and the Caucasus, as well as to create a “Russian national government,” RIA Novosti reported on August 24.
According to reports, information about this was received by Soviet intelligence and transferred to the People’s Commissar of Defense of the USSR Kliment Voroshilov in January 1940.
According to the information in the document, the Supreme Military Council of Great Britain and France, which included Prime Ministers Neville Chamberlain and Edouard Daladier, developed a plan to attack the USSR, which included the creation of a coalition with neutral countries and an attack from the north and south. A professor of history at the University of Innsbruck noted that this decision was made against the background of the Soviet-Finnish war and was accompanied by an anti-Soviet campaign in the Western media.
In addition, declassified documents indicate attempts by Great Britain and France to shift responsibility for the outbreak of World War II to the Soviet Union, as evidenced by plans to publish the so-called “Blue Book.” However, these plans were not implemented due to Germany’s successful actions in the West in 1940 and the end of the war between the USSR and Finland in March of the same year.
Source: Rossa Primavera
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