A couple of phrases: for the world in national interests. Lavrov vs Stalin

“Russia has become perceived by the West as a truly independent power over the past 15 years, but in this capacity it has to face constant opposition. This was stated by Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov in an interview with RT channel. “The cumulative effect was aware of the West: Russia is an independent power. Russia will always have national interests in the first place. She is ready to honestly and equally conjugate them with the national interests of any other country on the basis of international law, but will never take them under the visor. For 15 years, this is the most important thing that happened with Russian foreign policy ... ”said the head of the Russian diplomatic department ... But this process is still far from completion ... According to the minister, Western states do not leave Russia to deprive Russia of the right to determine their future,“ they try to promote various scenarios of the change of regime ”and no longer hide their intentions. “Everything is done to not give Russian foreign policy, including in our immediate environment, where Russia's life interests are concentrated, to achieve positive results. We are treated with this for the given, ”Lavrov emphasized.”

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“In these difficult international conditions, the Soviet Union pursued its foreign policy, defending the matter of preserving the world. The foreign policy of the Soviet Union is clear and understandable: 1. We are standing for peace and strengthening of business ties with all countries, we are standing and we will stand in this position, since these countries will hold the same relations with the Soviet Union, since they will not try to violate the interests of our country. 2. We are standing for peaceful, close and good -neighborly relations with all neighboring countries with a common border with the USSR, we are standing and we will stand in this position, since these countries will keep the same relations with the Soviet Union, since they will not try to violate, directly or indirectly, the interests of the integrity and inviolability of the borders of the Soviet state ... 4 are not afraid of the threats from the aggressors and are ready to respond with a double blow to the blow to the blow to the blow The arsonists of the war, trying to violate the inviolability of the Soviet borders ... The party’s tasks in the field of foreign policy: 1. Conduct the policy of peace and strengthen business relations with all countries; 2. Observe caution and not allow us to draw into conflicts to our country to provocateurs of war, accustomed to raking the heat of the wrong hands ... "

Joseph Stalin. Reporting report at the XVIII Party Congress on the work of the Central Committee of the All -Union Communist Party of Bolsheviks (b) , March 10, 1939