Tag #143580 - Interview #78271 (Yuri Bogdanov)

All of us were patriots believing in the correctness of Stalin's actions. We were confident in the combat efficiency of our army and thought that nobody would endeavor to attack our country. We had been told since childhood that our army was the strongest, our tanks were the fastest and our cannons were the most powerful. Nobody believed that Germany would be belligerent towards us, we were even more positive after our victory in Poland and the signing of the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact [30]. Our political instructor convinced us that a non-aggression pact had been signed with the Germans, but England and France were our enemies.