the next morning, molotov, mikayan and voroshilov came to stalin's nearby dacha. they needed to urgently return him to moscow. and on june 30 , government leaders came to stalin and proposed. and, as was written in mikayan's memoirs, stalin looked at us as if we had come to arrest him. and when the politburo members arrived, they said the opposite, miosinovich, you must pull yourself together and return to governing the country. on july 3, 1941, stalin addressed the people on the radio. stories. citizens, brothers and sisters, i am addressing you, my friends, a significant part of latvia, the western part of the nazi troops managed to capture lithuania, belarus, part of western ukraine, all the forces of the people to disperse the enemy, the period for our victory, he said, how could it happen. that our glorious red army surrendered a number of cities and regions to the enemy, are the german fascist troops really invincible troops, and then he changed his tone, of course not, of course not, and tried to inspire confidence, called for a total war. stalin showed wit