Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact

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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.[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

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