Chekhov’s Gun: The Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact in the Baltics
#AntiCommunism : On August 23, 1939, Soviet foreign minister Vyacheslav Molotov and German foreign minister, Joachim von Ribbentrop signed a nonaggression pact between the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany. The Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact contained secret protocols to divide Eastern Europe between the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany, precipitating the Nazi invasion of Poland on September 1, […]