Wednesday, September 2, 2009

The Nazi-Soviet Pact of 1939

On 23 August, 1939, Russia and Germany signed a 'non-agression pact'. The two countries had made a number of a secret protocol agreeing to invade and divide Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuana, Romania and Poland (first in line). The Nazi-Soviet Non-Aggression Pact was drawn up quickly and signed. The pact had secret clauses, one of which acknowledged the right of USSR to occupy the Baltic States, with the Soviet Union paying Germany a large sum in compensation for Hitler's claims in Lithuania. Another secret clause detailed the partition of Poland. Soviet Anti-Fascist propaganda was ordered stopped immediately. In fact, the term "Fascist" was banned from public media, and would not resurface again officially for the better part of two years. 

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