On this day in 1939: Secret protocol in non-aggression pact between Russia and Germany outlines partition of Poland, occupation of Baltic states and of parts of Romania and Finland, eventually leading to WWII

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  2. Secret Texts of the Molotov-Ribbentrop Non-Aggression Pact, 1939

    Original Language: Russian. Contents: English Translation

    [https://digitalarchive.wilsoncenter.org/document/110994.pdf?v=61e7656de6c925c23144a7](https://digitalarchive.wilsoncenter.org/document/110994.pdf?v=61e7656de6c925c23144a7)

    1) Secret supplementary protocol on the border of the spheres of interest of Germany and the USSR. Signed by V. M. Molotov and Ribbentrop on August 13, 1939. (handwritten annotation:) *Copy to Comrade Stalin

    *In signing the non-aggression pact between Germany and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, the undersigned plenipotentiaries of the two sides discussed in strict confidentiality the issue of delimiting the spheres of mutual interest in Eastern Europe. This discussion led to the following result:*

    1. *In the event of territorial-political reorganization of the districts making up the Baltic states (Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania), the northern border of Lithuania is simultaneously the border of the spheres of interest of Germany and the USSR. The interests of Lithuania with respect to the Vilnius district are recognized by both sides.*
    2. *In the event of territorial-political reorganization of the districts making up the Polish Republic, the border of the spheres of interest of Germany and the USSR will run approximately along the Pisa, Narew, Vistula, and San rivers. The question of whether it is in the (signatories’) mutual interest to preserve the independent Polish State and what the borders of that state will be can be ascertained conclusively only in the course of future political development. In any event, both governments will resolve this matter through friendly mutual agreement.*
    3. *Concerning southeastern Europe, the Soviet side emphasizes the interest of the USSR in Bessarabia. The German side declares its complete political disinterest in these areas.*
    4. *This protocol will be held in strict secrecy by both sides.*

    Moscow, August 23,1939

    (handwritten:) With the authorization of the Government of the USSR: (signed) V. Molotov

    For the Government of Germany: (signed) Ribbentrop

  3. *The question of whether it is in the (signatories’) mutual interest to preserve the independent Polish State and what the borders of that state will be can be ascertained conclusively only in the course of future political development. In any event, both governments will resolve this matter through* ***friendly mutual agreement****.*

    So gentlemen-like, those friendly nazi & bolshevik vermin.

  4. For decades, it was the official policy of the Soviet Union to deny the existence of the secret protocol to the Soviet–German Pact. At the behest of Mikhail Gorbachev, in December 1989 the Congress of People’s Deputies of the Soviet Union passed a declaration confirming the existence of the secret protocols and condemning and denouncing them. The Soviet copy of the original document was declassified in 1992 and published in a scientific journal in early 1993. On december 1, 1989 the Federal Republic of Germany also declared the secret protocols to be invalid from the moment that they were signed. In August 2009, in an article written for the Polish newspaper Gazeta Wyborcza, Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin condemned the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact as “immoral”.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molotov%E2%80%93Ribbentrop_Pact

  6. You know when western europeans cry about banning russians from entering the EU and saying that ordinary russians are victims.

    Ask them about their view on this. Ask them on their views of soviet imperialism and russian imperialism.

    Russians have no fucking place in our western democracies as long as they are supporting their imperialist homeland persecuting wars against its neighbours. Russians have no right to demand to enter the same countries their forefathers attacked and they themselves celebrates.

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