Russia's SVR has declassified documents about the plans of France and Great Britain to strike at the USSR in 1940

Great Britain and France hatched plans for a joint attack on the Soviet Union weakened by the war from the territory of Finland in 1940. This is stated in archival documents declassified by the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service.

The SVR made public some of the documents from its own archives by publishing them on the website of the Presidential Library. According to some of the materials, France and Great Britain were preparing a joint plan of attack on the USSR, intending to strike at the Soviet troops weakened by the war with the Finns just at the end of the Soviet-Finnish war, i.e. in 1940.

According to intelligence data received by the 5th department of the Main Directorate of State Security of the NKVD of the USSR (foreign intelligence), in Paris and London they planned to weaken the power of the USSR by protracting the war with Finland, and then strike at the Soviet Union. At the same time, it was not excluded that Germany would also join the British-French alliance, although this option was considered unlikely. At the same time, the invasion was planned not only from the northern direction.

During the Soviet-Finnish war, the West provided Finland with comprehensive support, not only supplying weapons and equipment, but also sending its units to fight on the side of the Finns, forming an entire international division. At the same time, Great Britain and France formed an expeditionary force to be sent to Finland, it was supposed to take part in the war against the USSR and provide a strike from its territory.

A strike was also being prepared from the south direction, the joint British-French troops were supposed to destroy the Baku oil fields, depriving the USSR of oil. For this, troops were concentrated in the Middle East in 1939-40, forming a shock fist. However, the plans of the West were not destined to come true, the Soviet-Finnish war ended on March 13, 1940, and Great Britain and France did not dare to attack the USSR on their own.

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[Zoldat_A]

More than 80 years have passed.
What has changed?

Collect all Western (and Hitler's too) plans for an attack on the USSR, pull a little from each - that's the West's plans for Russia today are ready. And in all the details - from the division of territory and resources to the genocide of the indigenous population.
Nothing new.

[Machito]

One word - eurofascists.
Europeans = Eurofascists.
European barbarians simply cannot live without genocide and robbery of other peoples. This is their essence.

[Journalist]

Oles Buzina, may the earth be rest in peace, in his materials very clearly demonstrated on concrete historical examples the whole essence of the formation of Western European civilization, which is the essence of thieves, swindlers, murderers and their descendants.

[tihonmarine]

Quote: Zoldat_A

Collect all Western (and Hitler's too) plans for an attack on the USSR, pull a little from each - that's the West's plans for Russia today are ready.

Starting from 1242, when the European brethren for the first time climbed en masse into Rus', then the Thirty Years' War, called the Zero World War, and then "let's go", WWI and Civil War with Intervention, WWII and the "Cold War", and now it's going on " Ice War. Europe will not calm down looking at Russia. And it is not for nothing that Britain created the Golem, not for peace, but for war with Russia. What now we see how a flock of jackals sharpens their teeth.

[dmmyak40]

Do not forget the Anglo-Boer War: then Great Britain destroyed 2 independent (almost European) states - Transvaal and Orange. And the Britons invented concentration camps in this war. And the British lancers came up with the game "Kill the pig" ...

[Zoldat_A]

Quote: tihonmarine

And it is not for nothing that Britain created the Golem, not for peace, but for war with Russia. What now we see how a flock of jackals sharpen their teeth.

Well, is there really no other way to make sure that they just leave us alone, so that they don’t just crap, how to flood this smelly island in FIG? And the whole north of Europe with him, just in case?
We had to redraw the political map of the world. What, now the physical map of the world will have to be changed?
Well, after all, everyone understands that only cockroaches will survive - why are they climbing? Like Zelensky, they think we won't dare?

[tihonmarine]

Quote: Zoldat_A

Well, after all, everyone understands that only cockroaches will survive - why are they climbing? Like Zelensky, they think we won't dare?

Well, you definitely noticed Igor - cockroaches, they are tenacious creatures and useless, but they think that after nuclear weapons, they will remain alive, because they are not people, but cockroaches in the physical and biological sense.

[Incvizitor]

Then the West made fascist Germany a ram against the Union, today fascist Ukraine is the same.

[tihonmarine]

Quote: Incvizitor

Then the West made fascist Germany a ram against the Union, today fascist Ukraine is the same.

I don’t see any difference in this, they found a tabloid woman who can be used without a contraceptive. Here is one difference in predictability.
If Germany, after the defeat in WWI, paid a colossal indemnity in excess, the country was humiliated, the people were brought almost to starvation, here I understand that they will go to fight where they will be forced and sent. The Germans were doomed.
But the former Ukrainian SSR was the richest not only in the USSR, but also in Europe in the first places, they received resources from Russia for mere pennies, their faces cracked from fat, "live, don't grieve." But what was needed, this bay from the 1st Guards cavalry, which carried her. What ? Well, I don’t understand these stout people, what did they lack, the European Union or something, where are they slaves, or something else?
Tsipso you answer here what you lacked.

[mitroha]

The West provided Finland with comprehensive support, not only supplying weapons and equipment, but also sending its units to fight on the side of the Finns, forming an entire international division.

Nothing has changed, except for the country of supply. The cycle of Western meanness

[zwlad]

Great Britain and France hatched plans for a joint attack on the Soviet Union weakened by the war from the territory of Finland in 1940.

It fits perfectly into the concept of an "enlightened" west by "enlightening" the eastern "barbarians".

[Zoldat_A]

Quote: zwlad

It fits perfectly into the concept of an "enlightened" west by "enlightening" the eastern "barbarians".

They have not yet reported for the past "enlightenment" ...

[Leader_Barmaleev]

And now you can’t even poke these bastards in the nose - three generations have changed and like "grandchildren are not responsible for the sins of their grandfathers." Maybe it is not necessary to withstand such archival pauses, but to publish materials while those who can be hit in the head with a hand are still alive? And somehow it’s even embarrassing - the enemies live out their lives in prosperity and contentment, are considered respected people, die in honor and are buried with honors. This is wrong.

[Alt7729]

What was there to declassify? This has long been known.

[tihonmarine]

Quote: Alt7729

What was there to declassify? This has long been known.

It was known at the level of conversations, but not at the level when data and documents are published.

[rotmistr60]

Great Britain and France hatched plans for a joint strike on the Soviet Union weakened by the war from the territory of Finland in 1940

Yes, and with the involvement of Germany. And these people are still trying to teach us the right way of life and behavior? It is clear with England - the eternal enemy of Russia. But France was added in vain to the number of winners in WW2, in vain. Didn't deserve it and today it confirms.

[Eug]

What is secret here, in these documents and plans? A lot has already been written about them. Or a hint of an analogy with today? Specific documents, of course, can make adjustments to the interpretation of a number of events and their development, but in general they are not a sensation.

[PC]

Thus, the SVR reports on the work done.

[rocket757]

Russia's SVR has declassified documents about the plans of France and Great Britain to strike at the USSR in 1940

. It is clear that history is ... HISTORY!
We should now see, hear, get a clear understanding of how we will develop further, where we will go and with whom!!!
It would be very timely and useful, in every way.
Not just words/statements, but a clear DEVELOPMENT plan!

[samarin1969]

And what is the pathos of the statement?? ... England and France did not hide their hostile attitude towards the USSR. But they were shackled by a "strange war". England and France voted for the exclusion of the USSR from the League of Nations for the "bombing of Finland."
Any decent (!) General Staff should always develop and correct Plans for different types of wars. ...

ps The SVR has recently become too carried away by history and the "Polish appetite". Probably all the plans of the enemy were revealed, hundreds of residents are tracking the movements of parts of NATO and the Armed Forces of Ukraine, and Syrsky was recruited long ago.

[solar]

And what is the pathos of the statement?? ... England and France did not hide their hostile attitude towards the USSR.

Still would. They have a war against Hitler, and at the same time the USSR signs a friendship agreement with him and supplies various products, including military ones. No wonder the hostility was experienced.

[tralflot1832]

About Finland, this is something new, about Baku has been repeatedly discussed on various resources. Interestingly, the plan was the occupation of the Kola Peninsula using the fleet of France and England. One has to wonder how we passed out of this situation. And how many documents are waiting for publication?

[Alexey RA]

Quote: tralflot1832

About Finland is something new

Meltyukhov wrote about these plans back in the early 2000s.
The allies tried kill three birds with one stone: deprive Germany of Swedish ore, tie down part of its forces in the north and provide military assistance to Finland against the USSR. At the same time, the Allies acted in the style cancer swan and pike - the British considered the weakening of Germany as their main goal, and the French - the USSR.

On December 19-22, England and France called on the Scandinavian countries to expand their assistance to Finland, promising them support in the event of complications with Moscow. At the same time, the British Admiralty began developing plans for mining Norwegian territorial waters and landing troops in Narvik. On December 27-28, the allies again offered Norway and Sweden to support Finland and promised help against the USSR and Germany. On December 31, the British military leadership submitted to the government a memorandum on the military consequences of intervention in the Soviet-Finnish war. As a worthy goal for the actions of the allied forces in northern Europe, the Swedish iron ore mining in Gällivare and provoking Germany to retaliate to create a new front, which was supposed to tie down significant forces of the German army, were called. The support of the Finns would have been a side effect of the operation, which could have been carried out at the end of March 1940.

In response to British demands to reduce Swedish deliveries of ore to Germany, on January 23, Sweden agreed to a secret transit of British volunteers to Finland. On the same day, England proposed that Norway either mine its territorial waters or close some of them to foreign navigation. Naturally, the Norwegian government tried to evade such drastic measures. The uncompromising position of Norway and Sweden forced England and France to develop other options. By January 16, France had developed a plan for the landing operation in Petsamo, which, after discussion by the Supreme Council of the Allies on February 5, despite the skepticism of England, was adopted as the basis for further military planning. By February 15, a specific plan of operation was prepared in the Petsamo area, which provided for the landing and capture of the port in the 20th of March, followed by an attack on the territory of the USSR with the aim of capturing Kandalaksha and Murmansk.
However, the British command was more interested in using the territory of Norway and Sweden to harm German interests. True, the British leadership had to take into account the negative consequences of violating the neutrality of the Scandinavian countries, so military training was carried out under the guise of helping Finland. As a result, a plan was developed in London for an amphibious landing, in Narvik, to occupy the territory of Norway and Sweden, with the subsequent help of Finland by the Allied troops, who would act under the guise of "volunteers". Thus, having decided to provide direct military assistance to Finland from about March 20, 1940, England and France in early March were ready to send troops to the north. Helsinki, Stockholm and Oslo were notified of this, and the allies only waited for the official appeal of the Finns for help and the consent of the Swedes and Norwegians to let the troops through.

© Meltyukhov M.I. Stalin's missed chance. The Soviet Union and the Struggle for Europe: 1939-1941.

[tralflot1832]

Thank you. I didn’t know and also forgot that Pechenga is Petsamo.

[fa2998]

Our modern history is invested precisely in the attitude of countries today. Relations have warmed up - we remember Lend-Lease, about the exploits of underground workers throughout Europe about the allied struggle against the Germans. Relations have deteriorated - again war plans, and volunteers in the German army. And Europe's work for the Wehrmacht.
Let me tell you. In 40, France and England were at war with Germany. And thinking of fighting on two fronts (with the USSR) is from the realm of fantasy. And even together with Germany For strikes on Baku oil, this is logical. This oil (among other things) was supplied to Germany. Judging by the USSR, it was an ally of Germany.
The issue was closed the next year - the USSR was subjected to aggression, and the ardent anti-Bolshevik Churchill vowed to help the USSR.

[fima_tut]

I don't understand what was declassified. All these plans were already published in one form or another, even already on the Internet, about 10-15 years ago.

[Alexey RA]

Quote from: fima_tut

I don't understand what was declassified. All these plans were already published in one form or another, even already on the Internet, about 10-15 years ago.

More. Stalin's "Missed Chance" by Meltyukhov, with a description of the landing plans in Petsamo and Narvik, followed by an attack on Murmansk to help the Finns, was published in 2000.

[Vladimir Vladimirovich Vorontsov]

“The Russian Foreign Intelligence Service has declassified documents about the plans of France and Great Britain to strike at the USSR in 1940” —

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- Merkel's revelations are fading...

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[Kostyar]

and Great Britain and France did not dare to attack the USSR on their own ...

Here it is, the essence of theirs, gray-humped mice - pisses and roars one on one !!!

[fa2998]

Quote: Bone

and Great Britain and France did not dare to attack the USSR on their own ...

Here it is, the essence of theirs, gray-humped mice - pisses and roars one on one !!!

We are talking about 1940. They fought with Germany! What "... did not dare"! They write nonsense in articles, drag it out of the archives, which corresponds to the modern situation.
Our history is not science. Our historians sit in the Kremlin, what they say, the whole country repeats. Moreover, the position changes literally by 180 degrees in a few days.
That country glorifies Trotsky, Tukhachevsky, etc., works are printed in millions of copies - op - and we are already burning books. In Spain, the Germans are opponents of the "fascists" - op and they are already allies, in Pravda congratulations to Hitler and Ripentrop, - op and they are already "fascists" again.

[moreman78]

What nonsense - these plans were even written about in school history textbooks, and even in various military-historical encyclopedias (such as the History of the Second World War) and even more so, there was no mystery and secret in this fact! The SVR opened the awesome secret of the Open Chinese to us!

[akropin]

I don’t understand why it was necessary to keep documents on these events secret for 80 years.

[AAC]

Every document has a signature. Most often, signatures are kept secret. And the information is sometimes confirmed very quickly.

[Incvizitor]

I wouldn’t be surprised if, together with Hitler, they planned all these smeared with one world.

[faiver]

At the same time, it was not excluded that Germany would also join the British-French alliance.

- but nothing that there was a de jure war between them?
Was it rolled out under the current situation?
And what is the weakening of the troops? Far from the entire Red Army fought in the Finnish, but what kind of British and French warriors did the same 1940 show ....

[Got it]

Something was declassified early! Couldn't you have waited another hundred years? And then after all, God forbid, the whole world finds out!
Clowns they are playing secrets, waiting for everyone to forget about everything, to reconsider all the events in the world and soooo let's declassify!

[GRIGORIY76]

Hmm, the SVR serves the propaganda interests of today with such news.
The plans were, the main goal is to deprive, well, or reduce the amount of fuel that Hitler could get.