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Also called the Nazi-Soviet Nonaggression Pact and the Frontiers and Friendship Treaty, the '''Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact''', executed by the Foreign Ministers of Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union, [[Joachim von Ribbentrop]] and [[Vyacheslav Molotov]], was signed in Moscow on 23 August 1939. It was ''de facto'' abrogated by the [[Operation Barbarossa]] Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union in 1940. The Pact had both a public and a secret section.<ref>{{citation | |||
| url = http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1939pact.html | |||
| title = Modern History Sourcebook: The Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, 1939 | |||
| publisher = Fordham University}}</ref> | |||
Given that there had been a relatively recent [[Anti-Comintern Pact]], this Pact needed explanation to the German and Soviet masses. | |||
==Soviet== | |||
Appropriately enough, the phrase "wise peace policy" of Stalin, used in 1935 by [[Georgi Dimitroff]], General Secretary of the [[Comintern]],<ref>{{citation | |||
| contribution = Speech in Reply to the Discussion on Dimitroff's Report at the Seventh World Congress of the Communist International | |||
| date = 13 August 1935 | |||
| title = The United Front: The Struggle against Fascism and War | |||
| author = [[Georgi Dimitroff]] | |||
| year = 1975 | |||
| publisher = Proletarian Publishers | |||
| url = http://www.marx2mao.com/Other/TUF35i.html}}</ref> was expanded to include this agreement. | |||
==The Pact== | |||
==Secret spheres of influence== | |||
==References== | |||
{{reflist|2}} | |||
Revision as of 12:04, 5 June 2010
Also called the Nazi-Soviet Nonaggression Pact and the Frontiers and Friendship Treaty, the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, executed by the Foreign Ministers of Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union, Joachim von Ribbentrop and Vyacheslav Molotov, was signed in Moscow on 23 August 1939. It was de facto abrogated by the Operation Barbarossa Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union in 1940. The Pact had both a public and a secret section.[1]
Given that there had been a relatively recent Anti-Comintern Pact, this Pact needed explanation to the German and Soviet masses.
Soviet
Appropriately enough, the phrase "wise peace policy" of Stalin, used in 1935 by Georgi Dimitroff, General Secretary of the Comintern,[2] was expanded to include this agreement.
The Pact
Secret spheres of influence
References
- ↑ Modern History Sourcebook: The Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, 1939, Fordham University
- ↑ Georgi Dimitroff (13 August 1935), Speech in Reply to the Discussion on Dimitroff's Report at the Seventh World Congress of the Communist International, The United Front: The Struggle against Fascism and War, Proletarian Publishers