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After dismissing Maxim Litvinov as Foreign Minister in 1939, Stalin had immediately directed incoming Foreign Minister, Vyacheslav Molotov, to 'purge the ministry of Jews', to appease Hitler and to signal to Nazi Germany that the USSR was ready for non-aggression talks.