Foreign Intelligence Service has declassified papers on London’s plans to blame the USSR for the outbreak of World War II
At the start of World War II Britain, along with France, planned to publish the so-called “Blue Book”, in which details of the Anglo-Soviet negotiations in 1939 would have exposed the Soviet Union as if it was its actions that led to the outbreak of global conflict. The material would also paint England, France and Poland as guilty of nothing. This is according to documents from declassified archives published on January 6 by the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) on the website of the Boris Yeltsin Presidential Library. B.N. Yeltsin.
“This book will consist of a number of specially selected and falsified ‘documents’ which will, in the opinion of the ‘islanders’, prove to the world that while ‘England was honestly negotiating with the Soviet Union and intended to conclude a pact, the Bolsheviks were playing a double game all along and by signing the Soviet-German pact they unleashed a European war,'” the intelligence report reads.
The authors of the book essentially needed to turn “white for black”. The publication of the document was scheduled for December 1939, but it was postponed until the arrival in London of British ambassador to the Soviet Union, William Sids.
According to Soviet intelligence, however, the release was postponed even afterwards because France wanted to rework the text to make it even more anti-Soviet.
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