Stalin 'planned to send a million troops to stop Hitler if Britain and
France agreed pact'
Stalin was 'prepared to move more than a million Soviet troops to
the German border to deter Hitler's aggression just before the
Second World War'
By Nick Holdsworth in Moscow
Last Updated: 1:14AM BST 19 Oct 2008
Papers which were kept secret for almost 70 years show that the Soviet Union proposed sending a powerful military force in an effort to entice Britain and France into an anti-Nazi alliance.