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On Sept. 29, 1939, the USSR signed a German-Soviet Boundary and Friendship Pact that included secret protocols, among which was a stricture that each party pledged to suppress any agitation against the other and to keep each other informed of any outbreak. The result, according to Roy Medvedev in "Let History Judge", was a complete halt to antifascist propaganda in the USSR. Even worse, Soviet leaders began to depict Germany as a potential victim of Anglo-French aggression. Molotov declared in the fall of 1939:
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