Editing Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact (section)

===Stalin's "Falsifiers of History" and Axis negotiations===
In response to the publication of the secret protocols and other secret German–Soviet relations documents in the State Department edition ''Nazi–Soviet Relations'' (1948), Stalin published ''[[Falsifiers of History]]'', which included the claim that during the pact's operation, Stalin rejected Hitler's claim to share in a division of the world,<ref name="nekrich202">{{Harvnb|Nekrich|Ulam|Freeze|1997|pp=202–205}}</ref> without mentioning the [[German–Soviet Axis talks|Soviet offer to join the Axis]]. That version persisted, without exception, in historical studies, official accounts, memoirs, and textbooks published in the Soviet Union until the [[dissolution of the Soviet Union]].<ref name="nekrich202" />

The book also claimed that the [[Munich Agreement]] was a "secret agreement" between Germany and "the west" and a "highly important phase in their policy aimed at goading the Hitlerite aggressors against the Soviet Union."<ref>{{cite book|last=Taubert|first=Fritz|title=The Myth of Munich|publisher=Oldenbourg Wissenschaftsverlag|year=2003|isbn=3-486-56673-3|page=318}}.</ref><ref>{{cite book|last=Henig|first=Ruth Beatrice|title=The Origins of the Second World War, 1933–41|url=https://archive.org/details/originssecondwor00heni|url-access=limited|publisher=Routledge|year=2005|isbn=0-415-33262-1|pages=[https://archive.org/details/originssecondwor00heni/page/n83 67]–68}}.</ref>