ABSTRACT
Post-Soviet research on Stalin’s foreign policy has focused on two main problems: the Nazi-Soviet agreements of August-September 1939 and the origins of the Cold War. During the 1990s, certain documents came into the public domain that had previously been thought lost or non-existent: notably, the secret protocols to the non-aggression pact of 23 August 1939 and the text of the friendship treaty concluded one month later, on 28 September. Molotov, who was people’s commissar for Foreign Affairs at the time, denied that any such documents existed. On 29 April 1983, he was interviewed by the journalist F. Chuev, and the dialogue went like this:
CHUEV: ‘In the West they keep on writing that some secret agreement was concluded along with the pact in 1939.’
