Read the following passage from joseph stalin's radio broadcast shortly after
germany invaded the ussr in 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.
which argument is most clearly developed by the rhetoric used in the
passage?