A 1939 secret message from Lavrentiy Beria, Soviet People’s Commissar of Internal Affairs, to Soviet military officer Kliment Voroshilov about the stance of Sweden, Germany and the USA in the event of a military confrontation between Finland and the USSR. The document is one of thousands of newly released files made digitally available by Russian state archives. (World War II in Archival Documents, Boris Yeltsin Presidential Library)
World War II in Archival Documents, Boris Yeltsin Presidential Library