Comments by "Franceyne Ireland" (@franceyneireland1633) on "Russia Had Another Sad, Pathetic Military Parade" video.
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Regarding the Soviet invasion of Poland: Where the Nazis imprisoned Jews in the west of Poland, the Soviets killed 10 to 15 percent of the Poles in the East ( entire families and the most educated, who, when alive, acted as guarantors of culture, of national and state traditions, of knowledge and of faith). Stalin wanted to destroy eastern Poland and absorb it into the Soviet Union, so he confiscated land, property and businesses, and deported over 1.5 million Poles to slave labour camps in Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan and the Arctic Circle. Many died because of appalling conditions during the journeys and at the camps. Between 1937 and 1938, nearly 140,000 were persecuted, with 111,000 suffering immediate death.
Although Stalin had promised ‘free and unfettered’ elections in Poland, when Stalin released Poland's army to fight under Britain against Germany, the Soviet domination of the Poland was complete by 1947. Poles who had fought with the western Allies or in the Polish resistance were condemned as ‘fascists’, and many were imprisoned or shot. There also was over two hundred concentration camps for Polish civilians in Poland by the Soviets. The Soviets also used existing camps, which had been in use under the Nazi occupation.
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The 1939 Treaty of Non-Agression between Germany and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, “The Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact “( also known as Hitler Stalin Pact & Nazi Soviet Alliance). Which provided a written guarantee of peace by each party towards the other and a commitment that declared that neither government would ally itself to or aid an enemy of the other.
The 1939 Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact that included a second supplementary protocol, a secret protocol, to divide Europe into German and Soviet spheres of influence although there was rumours and suspicion, the full knowledge of these agreements were not discovered during the Nuremberg trials.
Germany invaded Poland Sept 1 1939. from the West and Stalin invaded Poland on Sept 17, 1939,from the East. During the invasion of Poland, the Germans had taken control of the Lublin Voivodeship and eastern Warsaw Voivodeship and according to the Pact was to be in the Soviet sphere, Germany compensated the Soviets by transfering Lithuania to the Soviets except for a small area referred to as the “Lithuania Strip” on the left bank of the Sesupe River. The new border between German-Soviet influence was confirmed by the “German-Soviet Frontier Treaty”, signed Sept 28 1939 which defined the borders of the Soviets in Poland, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia and Finland. The secret protocol also allowed for exchanged of Soviet and German nationals within their occupied zones of Poland.
On Oct 5 1939 Soviets signed a Mutual Assistance Treaty with Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, where the parties respect each other's sovereignty and independence but allowed the Soviets to establish military bases on their territories, once the bases were established the bases facilitated a full scale Soviet invasion and occupation of the Baltic countries by June 1940.
On Feb 11 1940 there was the German-Soviet Commercial Agreement, the Soviet Union would send Germany 650 million Reichsmarks in raw materials in exchange for 650 million Reichsmark in machinery, manufactured goods and technology.
On March 1940 Karelia and Salla regions in Finland were annexed by Stalin, followed by the annexation parts of Romania and Bukovina in 1940.
On Jan 10 1941 Germany renounced it's claims to the portion of Lithuania in return for a Soviet payment of a sum agreed upon by the two countries.
On June 22 1941, Hitler ordered Operation Barbarossa (the expansion of Germany into Eastern Europe) the pact was then broken.
The 1939 Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact included a second secret supplementary protocol “German-Soviet Frontier Treaty”, dividing Europe into German and Soviet spheres of influence. There was rumours and suspicion, the full knowledge of these agreements were discovered during the Nuremberg trials.
Reich Foreign Office ordered them destroyed, Karl von Loesch, Schmidt's assistant, placed the films into boxes and buried them. but provided them during the Nuremberg trials, which were eventually published in 1947. Although the Soviets denied this for decades until under Mikhail Gorbachev ordered an investigation, where he then acknowledged and denounced it in 1989.
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