Lilliana Stone

English

20 May, 07:43

Read this passage from Joseph Stalin's radio broadcast from July 3, 1941:

Non-aggression pacts are pacts of peace between two States. It

was such a pact that Germany proposed to us in 1939. Could the

Soviet Government have declined such a proposal? I think that

not a single peace-loving State could decline a peace treaty with

a neighboring State even though the latter was headed by such

fiends and cannibals as Hitler and Ribbentrop.

Which statement makes a reasonable inference about the passage?

O

A. Stalin's need to defend the nonaggression pact shows his wariness of

critics.

O

B. Signing a nonaggression pact, even with cruel dictators, is a good idea.

O

C. The fact that Stalin agreed to the pact means that he actually meant to

break it first.

O

D. Stalin should have known that "fiends" would break a nonaggression

pact.