“We cannot lose Poland. If this line is crossed, they will grab us, too.”

— Vyacheslav Molotov

Statement, as quoted in Surviving the Millennium (1994) by Hall Gardner, p. 236, with citations to Molotov Remembers (1993) by Felix Chuev, p. 54

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