Citizens of the Soviet Union: The Soviet Government and its head, Comrade Stalin, have authorized me to make the following statement: Today at 4 o’clock a.m., without any claims having been presented to the Soviet Union, without a declaration of war, German troops attacked our country, attacked our borders at many points and bombed from…

Since the third session of the Supreme Soviet the international situation has shown no change for the better. On the contrary, it has become even more tense. Steps taken by various governments to put an end to this state of tension have obviously proved inadequate. This is true of Europe. Nor has there been any…

The decisions of the Central Executive Committee and the Council of People’s Commissars, which have been submitted for your confirmation, concerning certain amendments and addenda to individual articles of the Constitution, refer, chiefly, to organisational-administrative questions, but they introduce changes in the administrative division within a few Union republics, refer to the all-Union state apparatus…