146. Maisky recorded in his diary (Dec. 1): “The British reaction is rabid. The press, the radio, the cinema, Parliament—all have been mobilized.” Maiskii, Dnevnik diplomata, II/i: 75; Gorodetsky, Maisky Diaries, 243. See also Maisky, Memoirs of a Soviet Ambassador, 40; Carley, “‘Situation of Delicacy,’” 195–6; and Stalin’s comments to the chief of the Estonian armed forces, Dec. 11–12, 1939, as recorded by Rei, in Sotsialisticheskie revoliutsii v Estonii, 109. In Dec. 1939, Kollontai wrote from Stockholm to Molotov (a copy went to Voroshilov), calling the working situation “difficult and serious” and concluding, “I cannot fail to point out I still have no aide, and no one even to consult with, since everyone is new and they all need to be taught.” Gavrilov, Voennaia razvedka informiruet, 218–20 (RGVA, f. 33987, op. 3, d. 1202, l. 99–101ss). On the lack of experienced staff in Moscow, see Kraminov, V orbite voiny, 79.
147. Ericson, Feeding the German Eagle, 134; Philbin, Lure of Neptune, 61, 129.
148. Gavrilov, Voennaia razvedka informiruet, 361 (TsAMO, f. 23, op. 22407, d. 2, l. 586), 363 (op. 22410, d. 2, l. 196: Dec. 8, 1939), 372–3 (RGASPI. F. 495, op. 74, d. 618, l. 12, 13–4, 16). See also Zolotarev, Russkii arkhiv: Velikaia otechestvennaia, XVIII (VII/i): 162.
149. Rentola, “Intelligence and Stalin’s Two Crucial Decisions,” 1096, citing Paasikivi’s notes from the Government of Finland foreign affairs committee, Dec. 2 and 3, 1939, in O. Manninen and K. Rumpunen (eds.), Murhenäytelmän vuorosanat: Talvisodan hallituksen keskustelut (Helsinki, 2003).
150. Khristoforov et al., Zimniaia voina, 230–3. Molotov refused to meet with the Swedish mediator to hear the Helsinki government’s proposed concessions; Molotov told the American mediator that the Soviets would have no dealings with the Finnish government in Helsinki, especially since Tanner (the Social Democrat) had become foreign minister. FRUS, 1939, I: 1008–9, 1014–5.
151. The NKVD leadership demanded and received an accurate picture of the Red Army. Khristoforov et al., Zimniaia voina, 406–7 (Dec. 31, 1939).
152. Khristoforov et al., Zimniaia voina, 324 (TsA FSB, f. 3, op. f, d. 351, l. 212-6).
153. DVP SSSR, XXIII/i: 57–61, 77–78. These German officials do not appear in the logs for Stalin’s office.
154. Khrushchev, Memoirs, I: 251–2.
155. At the Johannisthal airfield outside Berlin Göring had paraded before them “twin-engine Junkers 88 and Dornier 215 bombers, single-engine Henkel-100 and Messerschmitt-110 fighters, Focke-Wulf-187 and Henschel reconnaissance planes, a twin-engine Messerschmitt-110 fighter, a Junkers 87 dive bomber, and other types of aircraft,” as Alexander Yakovlev described the scene. General Ernst Udet, Göring’s deputy, took Hovhannes “Ivan” Tevosyan, head of the Soviet delegation, up in a Fiesler Storch reconnaissance plane, then executed a “splendid landing, stopping exactly where it had started from.” Tevosyan was impressed. Later, Göring made him a gift of the aircraft. The delegation, according to Yakovlev, “returned to the Adlon strongly impressed.” Tarpaulins and ropes curtained off whole areas of the sites the Soviets visited—Messerschmitt in Augsburg, Focke-Wulf in Bremen, Junkers in Dessau, BMW in Munich, Henschel and Siemens in Berlin. Bialer, Stalin and His Generals, 117–8; Berezhkov, At Stalin’s Side, 81–2.
156. DGFP, series D, VIII: 472–5 (shopping list), 513 (Ribbentrop, Dec. 11, 1939), 516–7 (Ritter to Schulenburg, Dec. 11, 1939).
157. Khristoforov et al., Zimniaia voina, 289–91 (TsA FSB, f. 3, op. 6, d. 35, l. 154–60: Dec. 12), 292 (d. 540, l. 266: Dec. 12), 312–4 (l. 225–9: Dec. 14), 319–21 (l. 276–9), 321–2 (l. 280–3), 326 (l. 290).
158. Na prieme, 9, 279, 284–5.
159. Malyshev, “Dnevnik narkoma,” 109–10.
160. Banac, Diary of Georgi Dimitrov, 122–3 (Dec. 21, 1939). Some guests at the banquets were known to carry home candies, nuts, fruit, and other portables for their families.
161. Raikin, Vospominaniia, 195–7.
162. Pirogov, S otsom, 133–4. Pirogov was not again invited to perform at Kremlin banquets, but escaped arrest.
163. Vladimir Orlov, “Prokofiev.”
164. I. S. Rabinovich, in Stalin i liudi sovetskoi strany, 3. See also Rabinovich, “Obraz vozhdia”; Grabar’, “Stalin i liudi sovetskoi strane”; and Kravchenko, Stalin v izobrazitel’nom iskusstve.
165. Pravda, March 18, 1939. The painting had first been exhibited at the show “Twenty Years of the Red Army.”
