Comments by "Franceyne Ireland" (@franceyneireland1633) on "Russia Says it Has Never Attacked Anyone in its History" video.
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One day after talks broke down with Britain and France with the Soviet Union. The Soviets and Germans signed an agreement on August 23 1939 of a nonaggression pact for 10 years. This Treaty of Non-Aggression 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. This treaty also included a second supplementary protocol, a secret protocol, signed 28 Sept 1939 to divide Europe into German and Soviet spheres of influence although there was rumours and suspicion, the knowledge of these agreements were discovered during the Nuremberg trials. Reich Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop ordered the filming of the most important papers. The work was carried out by Paul Otto Schmidt, the chief interpreter of the Reich Foreign Office. Karl von Loesch, Schmidt's assistant, placed the films into boxes and buried them. Thus, these films survived the destruction of many important Foreign Office records, which were eventually published in 1947.
Germany invaded Poland Sept 1 1939. Stalin invaded Poland on Sept 17, 1939, ( only one day after the Soviet-Japanese ceasefire came into effect after the Battles of Khalkhin Gol.) The secret protocol allowed for exchanged of Soviet and German nationals within their occupied zones of Poland. Plus 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 Soviert sphere, the Germany compensated the Soviets by transferring 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, which defined the borders of the Soviets in Poland, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia and Finland.
In Feb 11 1940 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. In 1939 Soviets signed a Mutual Assistance Treaty with Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania in 1939, where the parties respect each other's sovereignty and independence but allowed the Soviets to establish military bases on their territories but once the bases were established the bases facilitated a full scale Soviet invasion and occupation of the Baltic countries. In March 1940 Karelia and Salla regions in Finland were annexed by Stalin, followed by the annexation parts of Romania and Bukovina in 1940. In 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. WW2 started by the invasion and conquering of independent countries. My personal opinion due to the unsavory greedy pact between the Nazis and Soviets to invade and divide up between them independent countries in Europe, both Nazi Germany and the Soviets started WW2. I have trouble understanding how the other Allies allowed Stalin to continue to occupy those countries, unless economically it was not possible to do otherwise.
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