Soviet people will come to Germany's aid and will not allow Germany to be strangled. The Soviet Union wants to see a strong Germany and we will not allow Germany to be thrown to the ground." - Meaning and context.">
Said by Stalin during a meeting with the German Minister of Foreign Affairs Joachim von Ribbentrop, shortly after the Soviet Union invaded Poland (28 September 1939), as quoted in World War Two: Behind Closed Doors: Stalin, the Nazis and the West (2008) by Laurence Rees, p.30-31. This statement was recorded in Gustav Hilger's detailed minutes of the meeting, which remained secret until the 1990s.
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If, against all expectation, Germany finds itself in a difficult situation then she can be sure that the Soviet people will come to Germany's aid and will not allow Germany to be strangled. The Soviet Union wants to see a strong Germany and we will not allow Germany to be thrown to the ground.

— Joseph Stalin

What It Means

This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "If, against all expectation, Germany finds itself in a difficult situation then she can be sure that the Soviet people will come to Germany's aid and will not allow Germany to be strangled. The Soviet Union wants to see a strong Germany and we will not allow Germany to be thrown to the ground." in the context of "Said by Stalin during a meeting with the German Minister of Foreign Affairs Joachim von Ribbentrop, shortly after the Soviet Union invaded Poland (28 September 1939), as quoted in World War Two: Behind Closed Doors: Stalin, the Nazis and the West (2008) by Laurence Rees, p.30-31. This statement was recorded in Gustav Hilger's detailed minutes of the meeting, which remained secret until the 1990s." to mean that wisdom is timeless.

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About Joseph Stalin

Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin (born Ioseb Besarionis dze Jughashvili; 21 December {9 December Old Style} 1879 – 5 March 1953) was a Georgian revolutionary and political leader who led the Soviet Union from 1924 until his death in 1953. He served as both General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (1922–1952) and Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Soviet Union (1941–1953). Despite initially governing the country as part of a collective leadership, he ultimately consolidated power to become the Soviet Union's dictator by the 1930s. A communist ideologically committed to the Leninist interpretation of Marxism, Stalin formalised these ideas as Marxism–Leninism while his own policies are known as Stalinism. He was the father of Svetlana Alliluyeva.