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The Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact: How Stalin Enabled Hitler, World War II, and the Holocaust in Poland

The Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact: How Stalin Enabled Hitler, World War II, and the Holocaust in Poland

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On the evening of August 23, 1939, a photograph was taken inside the Kremlin that, to this day, ought to make the blood run cold. At the table sat Joachim von Ribbentrop, Hitler’s foreign minister, pen in hand, and Vyacheslav Molotov, Stalin’s trusted diplomat. Hovering behind them with an oddly satisfied grin was Joseph Stalin. They had just signed the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, a document whose public terms promised peace between Germany and the Soviet Union, but whose secret clauses carved up Eastern Europe like a butcher portioning a carcass. In that moment, two regimes that loathed each other shook hands, and the fuse for the Second World War was lit. For too long, history has let Stalin hide in Hitler’s shadow. The Soviet Union was not merely a victim of Hitler’s later betrayal. It was an accomplice in starting the war and in enabling the Holocaust that followed in Poland.


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