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That's a reference to Sudaplatov's account, he's the "intermediary" the review mentions.
Do you think that there will be a video recording of this, or an official paper signed in Stalins blood?
This is what you get, what you ask is additional evidence that would require future technology of brain scanning capabilities and time traveling technology to definitely prove what was inside Stalins mind.
For me it is obvious that Stalin would have traded away those lands and peoples.
Especially when you factor in that before Hitler attacked, Stalin said that what Hitler would do is gradually ask for territories such as the Ukraine and through that such a thing would be reasonable under the right circumstances
THEN add the fact that in July of 1941 after the red army had suffered huge losses Stalin was worried that he would be dethroned and executed.
THEN add the purges and that Stalin was constantly purging people he perceived as a threat
You add all of these pieces and you get a dictator who obviously is interested is perceiving his own skin above all else, that is why he did the Purges. So in August - October 1941, Hitler COULD in my opinion reached out to Stalin and would have accepted because Stalin was worried.