> The Soviet copy of the original document was declassified in 1992 and published in a scientific journal in early 1993. > Despite publication of the recovered

> The Soviet copy of the original document was declassified in 1992 and published in a scientific journal in early 1993. > Despite publication of the recovered copy in western media, for decades, it was the official policy of the Soviet Union to deny the existence of the secret protocol [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molotov–Ribbentrop_Pact https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molotov–Ribbentrop_Pact