February

From the diary of the USSR People's Commissar for Foreign Affairs V.M. Molotov - a conversation with the British Ambassador to the USSR S. Cripps about the attitude of the Soviet government to the British proposals of October 22, 1940 on improving Soviet-British relations

Letter from Chiang Kai-shek to J.V. Stalin with gratitude for his help in the war against Japan and the improvement of the situation in the Far East in connection with the more active position of the United States, with an accompanying note of the head of the Main Department of the General Staff of the General Staff of the Chief Executive Officer F.I.Golikov to I.V. Stalin dated March 6 1941 g.

Report by the People's Commissar of Defence of the USSR S. K. Timoshenko to Joseph Stalin and the Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars of the USSR V. M. Molotov on the supplyment of the Air Force units with poor equipped and faulty aircraft from Plant No. 1

Cipher telegram from the Charge d'Affaires of the USSR in Greece A.I. Lazarev to the People's Commissariat for Foreign Affairs of the USSR on the strengthening of British influence in Greece

Cipher telegram of the plenipotentiary representative of the USSR in Bulgaria A.A.Lavrischev to the People's Commissariat for Foreign Affairs of the USSR on the dissemination of distorted information regarding the position of the USSR on Bulgaria in the Bulgarian media

Report of the People's Commissar for Ammunition of the USSR I.P.Sergeev to the Chairman of the Defense Committee under the Council of People's Commissars of the USSR K.E. Voroshilov on the work of the USSR People's Commissariat for Ammunition in 1940.

Report by Soviet People’s Commissar of Defence S. K. Timoshenko and Chief of the General Staff of the Red Army G. K. Zhukov to the Central Committee of the CSPU (b), the Council of People’s Commissars of the Soviet Union and the Defence Committee of the Council of People’s Commissars of the USSR about the poor condition of planes delivered to the air force of the Baltic Military District

Covering note of the Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars of the USSR V.M.Molotov, Deputy Chairmen of the Council of People's Commissars of the USSR K.E. Voroshilov, N.A.Voznesensky and People's Commissar of Defense of the USSR S.K. ) "On the plan of military orders for 1941 for armaments" and the project approved by the Politburo of the Central Committee of the CPSU (b)

Resolution of the Politburo of the Central Committee of the All-Union Communist Party of Bolsheviks "On increasing the production of 20-mm shells in 1941" (pr. No. 27/27-op for February 5 - 22, 1941, p. 35)

From the diary of A. Ya. Vyshinsky, First Deputy People's Commissar for Foreign Affairs of the USSR - a record of a conversation with the envoy of Yugoslavia in the USSR M. Gavrilovich about the possible start of hostilities in the Balkans and Bulgaria's withdrawal from neutral status