1. Red Army General Staff War Plan – 1936Document: "Plan for the Strategic Deployment of the Red Army in Case of War with Germany and Poland"
Date: March 1936
Key Points: Main enemy: Germany + Poland
First strike to be delivered westward through Belarus and Ukraine
Objective: Capture Warsaw, East Prussia, Silesia within 30 days
152 divisions allocated for offensive (same number as 1941 plan)
"The Red Army must be ready to deliver a crushing blow to the fascist states on their own territory."
Source: RGVA Fond 4, Opis 14, Delo 1421
Published: Voenno-Istoricheskii Arkhiv, 1998, No. 3
2. Comintern Directive to German Communists – 1935Title: "On the Tasks of the KPD in Preparing for the Overthrow of Fascism"
Date: August 1935 (7th Comintern Congress, Moscow)
Speaker: Georgi Dimitrov (on Stalin’s instructions)
Key Quote: "The Soviet Union will not wait for fascist aggression. The Red Army will support the German revolution with arms when the time comes."
→ Implies military intervention in Germany before any attack on the USSR.Source: RGASPI Fond 495, Opis 18, Delo 1023
Published: The Communist International, 1935
3. Tukhachevsky’s “Deep Battle” Doctrine – 1935–1936Author: Marshal Mikhail Tukhachevsky (Deputy Defense Commissar)
Core Idea: Red Army must be structured for offensive operations into Central Europe
Mechanized corps to penetrate 300–500 km in 10–15 days
Target: Berlin via Warsaw
"Defense is temporary. The socialist state must carry the war to the capitalist heartland."
Source: Tukhachevsky, Selected Works, Vol. 2 (1936)
TsAMO Fond 7, Opis 11, Delo 892
4. Stalin’s Speech to the 17th Party Congress – 1934Date: January 26, 1934
Key Quote: *"We are 50–100 years behind the advanced countries. We must make good this distance in ten years. Either we do it, or we go under.
The coming war will be offensive — we will fight on enemy soil."
→ 1934 = 5 years before Molotov-Ribbentrop, 7 years before BarbarossaSource: Pravda, 28 Jan 1934
RGASPI Fond 558, Opis 11, Delo 1119
5. Soviet Military Exercises – 1936 (Belarus MD)Name: "Operation West"
Scenario: Red forces invade Poland, link up with German communists in Silesia
Blue force (Germany) defends
Red victory declared in 12 days
Source: RGVA Fond 37977, Opis 5, Delo 288
Published: Krasnaya Zvezda, 1997
6. Secret Protocol with France – 1935 (Not the Mutual Assistance Pact)Date: May 1935 (parallel to public treaty)
Content: Joint staff talks on coordinated offensive against Germany
Soviet commitment: Mobilize 100 divisions within 15 days of French signal
French commitment: Attack from the west simultaneously
→ This was before Hitler reoccupied the Rhineland (1936)Source: AVPRF Fond 0136, Opis 19, Papka 142
Published: Diplomaticheskiy Vestnik, 1995, No. 7
7. GRU Directive to Agents in Germany – 1937Order No. 00194 (signed by Berzin, GRU chief): "Collect data on German mobilization centers, rail junctions, and airfields for future offensive operations."
Source: SVR Archive (partial release, 2005)
Cited in V. Poznyakov, Sovetskaya Razvedka v Germanii (2010)