Read this excerpt from joseph stalin's radio broadcast on july 3, 1941: non-aggression pacts are pacts of peace between two states. it was such a pact that germany proposed to us in 1939. could the soviet government have declined such a proposal? i think that not a single peace-loving state could decline a peace treaty with a neighboring state even though the latter was headed by such fiends and cannibals as hitler and ribbentrop. what do the underlined words in this excerpt most clearly suggest? a. germany's attack on russia had been planned for a long time. b. germany's attack on russia was similar to one tribe making war on another. c. germany's attack on russia was similar to betraying all the rules of civilization. d. germany's attack on russia had been planned to be brutal.