Talk:Stalin's speech on August 19, 1939

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The very existence of this speech has not been proven and still being debated by historians.

And no pages link to here Wetman 19:11, 15 Mar 2004 (UTC)

I hope you'll agree that the above doesn't preclude the existence of the article: describing either a fact or a hoax of historical importance. Mikkalai 19:19, 15 Mar 2004 (UTC)

A POV removed:

The apparent mistake in Stalin's reasoning was the fact that WW2 followed the pattern of blitzkrieg rather the positional war of WW1. The result of this error and Soviet decision to support Germany was the Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union in 1941.

Besides, it is not directly revevant to the article. The goal is to describe the fact, not to judge it. Not to say that Stalin (allegedly) spoke not about the length of the war per se, but about the time to properly "consume" the seized territories by Germany.Mikkalai 19:19, 15 Mar 2004 (UTC)

It could be helpful if people know that it was Russian historian T.S.Bushuyeva who found the text among secret files of USSR Special Archive and published it in Russian journal Novy Mir (No. 12, 1994). -Whiskey 23:04, 31 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Unfortunately she didn't. Mikkalai 05:30, 1 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Thanks. Whiskey 08:27, 1 Feb 2005 (UTC)

The archive files location: Centre for the Preservation of Collections of Historical Documents, former Soviet Special Archives; fund 7, list 1, file 12239. (In Russian: Центр хранения историко-документальных коллекций, бывший Особый архив СССР, ф. 7, оп. 1, д. 1223) From the link added in the article. Constanz 15:34, 22 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Moved sentence from article

About Stalin's interview in Pravda. "Some Kremlinologists would interpret this as Stalin's implicit acceptance of the essential content of the speech.^[1]"

I can't find any such quotation there; I only find Nordling's own interpretation (which is, IMHO, rather far-fetched, to say the least, and pretty vague, too). Nordling is not a Kremlinologist (whatever that "science" is worth, anyway).--91.148.159.4 14:31, 15 February 2007 (UTC)