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Stalin on Soviet Foreign Policy: "Our foreign policy is clear. It is a policy of preserving peace and strengthening commercial relations with all countries. The U.S.S.S. does not think of threatening anybody - let alone of attacking anybody. We stand for peace and champion the cause of peace. But we are not afraid of threats and are prepared to answer blow for blow against the instigators of war. Those who want peace and are striving for business intercourse with us will always receive our support. And those who try to attack our country - will receive a stunning rebuff to teach them not to poke their pig's snout into our Soviet garden again." -From Report on the Work of the Central Committee to the XVII Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. (Stalin Reports, International Publishers, page 28.)