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Originally Posted by editeur
Nah, they didn't. here's the history lesson, you can verify it online in wiki for example.
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They did.
"The Molotov?Ribbentrop Pact, named after the Soviet foreign minister Vyacheslav Molotov and the Nazi German foreign minister Joachim von Ribbentrop, officially the Treaty of Non-aggression between Germany and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics,[a] and also known as the Ribbentrop?Molotov Pact or Nazi?Soviet Pact, was a non-aggression pact signed in Moscow in the late hours of 23 August 1939."
"In addition to stipulations of non-aggression, the treaty included a secret protocol that divided territories of Romania, Poland, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia and Finland into Nazi and Soviet "spheres of influence", anticipating potential "territorial and political rearrangements" of these countries. Thereafter, Germany invaded Poland on 1 September 1939. After the Soviet-Japanese ceasefire agreement took effect on 16 September, Stalin ordered his own invasion of Poland on 17 September.[3] Part of southeastern (Karelia) and Salla region in Finland were annexed by the Soviet Union after the Winter War. This was followed by Soviet annexations of Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Bessarabia, Northern Bukovina and the Hertza region.
The pact remained in force until the German government broke it by invading the Soviet Union on 22 June 1941."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molotov...ibbentrop_Pact