The agreement was officially entitled the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, allowing both the Germans and the Soviets to claim whatever European lands they invaded as long as they did not go into conflict against each other. (RIA Novosti archive)Īt the outbreak of World War II in September 1939, the German Reich and the Soviet Union had a mutual agreement to divide the conquered Poland between them. (Public Domain) Soviet soldiers operating an anti-aircraft gun in defense of Moscow during the eponymous battle, 1941. (Bundesarchiv – German Federal Archives) Elements of the German 3rd Panzer Army advancing through Belarus during Operation Barbarossa, 1941. Soviet General Secretary Joseph Stalin shaking hands with German Minister of Foreign Affairs Joachim von Ribbentrop after signing the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact at the Kremlin, 1939.
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