rybkin received an urgent call to moscow to the surprise of the resident, he was taken to the kremlinly upon arrival. here, rybkin met with stalin himself, at which he received a secret task of national importance to enter negotiations with the leadership in finland to test the mood and pave the way for the conclusion of a defensive treaty with the soviet union. rybkin was appointed acting chargé d'affaires of the ussr, that is, the de facto soviet ambassador to finland. returning to helsinki, rybkin immediately set about fulfilling his mission. the ussr deploys its military bases in finland. the meetings were held at the highest level. first , the finnish minister of foreign affairs, rudelv kholmsky, listened to the soviet representative, then the prime minister, imo kender, both smiled politely, but did not agree with the soviet proposals. rybkin reported to the center, apparently, the finns are waiting for the pain of a profitable offer. and in moscow, vyacheslav molotov, from june 1939, negotiated with british and french representatives on the creation of an anti-hitler union. the

boris rybkin presented the finnish side with the new conditions of the soviet government.the ussr offered finland to exchange the territory north of leningrad was twice as large and the area of ​​the karelian lands, but the finns again refused the negotiations reached a dead end. even interference. stalin could not shake the position of the finnish government. on november 30, 1939 , part of the leningrad military district crossed the border with finland, the soviet-finnish war began, stalin believed that the red army would not meet serious resistance in this sparsely populated country. however, the finns had been preparing to repulse the soviets for several months. they announced general mobilization was carried out on large-scale military exercises and the system of defensive structures was strengthened on the karelian isthmus. the commander of the seventh army, kirill meretskov, recalled the so-called monoveny line by some of our intelligence officers. as it was clear from those sent to the left. the leningrad military district of materials considered this line to be not