June 10, 1939.
Soviet diplomatic personnel stationed in Britain and France once again held deeper negotiations and consultations with the two countries. Although Yosef had already made up his mind to declare war on Germany, before the Soviet Union declared war, it first had to clearly define responsibilities with Britain and France, as well as the distribution of postwar interests.
Yosef and the Soviet leadership clearly remained wary of Britain and France. In particular, they feared that the two countries would renege after the war, and that possibility was extremely high.
In fact, the outbreak of the Cold War in his previous life had happened precisely this way. After World War II, the Western countries immediately turned their faces against the Soviet Union.
But this was also the Westerners' tradition. Back when Napoleon was unrivaled beneath heaven, Europe had been eager for Tsarist Russia to serve as the Gendarme of Europe, putting on the air that Russia was Europe's savior. Once Napoleon had been dealt with, Britain immediately began a full-scale blockade of Tsarist Russia.
After World War II broke out in his previous life, when Britain and the other Western countries needed the Soviet Union to join the war, they likewise acted as though they were flocking to it. Yet the moment the war ended, they could not wait to turn hostile.
Later, after the Soviet Union disintegrated, Europe and America repeated their old tricks, spinning Russian politicians around and around as though, once the Soviet Union collapsed, Russia could enter the embrace of the "free world" family. And afterward...
In short, the Slavs had always harbored a kind of fantasy when it came to the West.
Yosef was the same now. He luckily believed that if the Soviet Union fought shoulder to shoulder with Britain and France, the