Stalin Note

1952 communication by Joseph Stalin Germany in 1952: the Federal Republic (West) in blue, DDR (East) in red, West Berlin in yellow, and the Saar Protectorate in purple. Stalin in 1950 The Stalin Note (German: Stalin-Noten; French: Note de Staline; Russian: Нота Сталина, romanized: Nota Stalina), also known as the March Note or Peace Note (мирная нота, mirnaya nota), was a diplomatic note delivered to the representatives of the Western Allies (the United Kingdom, France, and the United States) from the Soviet Union in separated Germany including the two countries in West and East on 10 March 1952. Soviet general secretary and premier Joseph Stalin put forth a proposal for a German reunification and neutralisation with no conditions on economic policies and with guarantees for "the rights of man and basic freedoms, including freedom of speech, press, religious persuasion, political conviction, and assembly" and free activity of democratic parties and organizations. Conservative CDU/CSU West German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer and the Western Allies characterized Stalin's offer of reintegration as an aggressive action that attempted to stall the reintegration of Wes