from stalin's letter to adolf hitler: thank you for your letter. i hope that the german-soviet non-aggression agreement will create a turn towards a serious improvement in political relations between our countries. the soviet government has instructed me to inform you that it has agreed to mr. ribbentrop's arrival in moscow on august 23.

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the negotiations. stalin did not just sign treaty, germany's agreement that we would sign treaties, not attacks. later, stalin would give his own assessment of the treaty with hitler. this would happen on july 3 , 1941, during the days when germany would attack the soviet union. in his radio speech , stalin would say: ask how it could happen

that the soviet government would sign a pact during an attack with such people and izmergs as hitler and. people: was there a mistake on the part of the soviet government here? of course not, there is a non-aggression pact, a peace pact between the two states, it was precisely such a pact that germany proposed to us in 1939, could the soviet government refuse such a proposal, i think that... no peace-loving state can refuse a peace agreement with neighboring powers, if even such monsters and cannibals as hitler or ventrof are already in this power, who won, we will conclude a non-

aggression pact with germany, and provide your country with the opportunity to prepare its forces for the world within a year and a half. from its own national security, our own national interests, having exhausted, i emphasize, all attempts to seat western colleagues at the negotiating table and sign something anti-hitler, we realized that we were one on one, we had to ensure our own security, the treaty was precisely this provision of our security. the treaty,

signed in one day, became a world sensation: on august 25, england and france concluded a military alliance with poland, but this could no longer stop hitler. on september 1, the germans invaded poland, and this arrogant polish leadership accepts this the blow was very unsuccessful, because on the very first day the entire polish air force was destroyed, the polish soldiers fought bravely, remarkably, but they could not withstand these and guderian's tank armies and goering's air force and...

in order to advance towards the german soviet leadership made a decision to go beyond the debarkation line, that's when the army, stop it at the demarcation line, and a statement of the soviet government was prepared, which said that the polish government was not showing signs life, it no longer controls poland, in these conditions... we cannot abandon to the mercy of fate the fraternal ukrainian belarusian people

who live in the eastern territory of poland . the soviet government did not want to enter the territory of poland until the very end. and if we look at the correspondence soberly, we see how difficult it was to make this decision. but what should the soviet union have done in this situation, let the germans occupy western belarus western ukraine. on september 17, the red army entered. we must admit that the fact of national oppression, the policy of forced

polonization in the territories of the so-called kres vshodnye, what was actually western belarus, western ukraine, this is a fact that is beyond doubt, the poles pursued a very tough policy and treated belarusians and ukrainians as untermenschen, as subhumans, this must also be remembered. september 21, 1939. the red army occupies brest behind them, there were no celebrations on this occasion that day,

there was already information that hitler was just waiting for his hands to be untied for in order to continue the war as much as possible, the fact is that around september 3-4 england and france finally declared war. in terms of numbers and weapons, in terms of power, it was absolutely equal to the wehrmacht

of that time. american journalists called the military actions on the western front a fake war. the press wrote that the allies were not going to fight germany. in moscow, this caused particular concern. at any time, hitler could unleash a war in the east. and here the baltic republics could become his allies: estonia, latvia and lithuania. even before the molotov-ribbentrop pact, the governments of these states signed an agreement on cooperation with nazi germany. the peak of rapprochement between the leadership of the authoritarian regimes of latvia and estonia and the third reich came in the spring, early summer of 1939. this was the signing of the so-called monters -ribbentrop pact and the selter-ribbentrop pact, which included tacit grounds for... the declared neutrality of estonia and latvia, de facto, to be deployed

against the soviet union. soviet-german the non-aggression pact did not envisage direct occupation of the baltics by either soviet or german troops. the first point of the secret protocol only stated that in the event of territorial reorganization of the baltic states, the border of the spheres of interest of the ussr and germany would run along the northern border of lithuania. on september 28, stalin demanded that hitler renounce his claim to lithuania. the fuhrer agreed. there were no specifics about the annexation of the baltics. therefore, all these attempts to say that everything was laid down in advance in the fact molotov ribbentrop, this is all, in general, quite strange, but later on, well-known events occur that led to the inclusion of latvia, lithuania and estonia into the soviet union. in september 1939, the soviet government conducted tense negotiations with the baltic

republics on the conclusion of a military alliance. on september 28, the ussr and estonia signed a mutual assistance pact, the parties pledged to provide each other with economic and military assistance in the event of an attack by any european power. the soviet union received the right to lease estonian naval bases airfields. a week later, on october 5, the ussr concluded similar agreements with latvia, and on october 10 with lithuania. stalin handed over to lithuania its ancient capital, the city.

it shows all the falsity, all the far-fetchedness, all the artificiality of this propaganda myth in relation to the terrible, horrible moltribentrop pact. the soviet-lithuanian pact was sharply condemned by the polish government in exile. it officially stated that it would never recognize the transfer of vilnius to lithuania. "this polish government in exile, which represented no one and which abandoned its country and its army to the mercy of fate in september of 1939, it in december of 1939, being in the city of angers, found nothing better to do than to declare war, and to whom, not germany, but the soviet union." you are declaring war not on the aggressor who defeated and

dismembered your country, but you are declaring war on the country that wanted to protect you until the very end.

to arouse suspicion in the governments of these countries moreover, the slightest cases that could arouse suspicion were suppressed in every possible way by meritskov, who commanded our troops, was reprimanded by the politburo for placing some battery on the territory of some landowner, without the consent of the latvian government. the communists in latvia, lithuania, estonia were still sitting in prison, all communist propaganda was banned, and the government of these countries, the semi-fascist

government, they felt quite calm. the established balance of power in poland and... europe under hitler's fifth and then the soviet leadership realized that hitler would not take these small contingents into account soviet troops in latvia and lithuania.

on june 15, by order of stalin , soviet troops were brought into the capital of latvia, estonia and lithuania. our troops at this time in mid -june. estonia, latvia and lithuania learned what was happening in poland, in poland there was fear and horror. hitler set the task that poland would be destroyed as a country, as a state, began. terrible, bloody repressions, there were hundreds, thousands, the construction of camps began, in

the baltics they knew this. in all three republics, allied ussr were formed, coalition government. after this , the bans on the communist movement and demonstrations were lifted. throughout the following month , thousands of pro-soviet demonstrations took place on the streets of tallinn, riga and vilnius. on july 14 , parliamentary elections were held in all three republics. according to official soviet data, the communist parties received over 95% of the votes. modern baltic historians consider these results to be falsified, but do not rule out the fact that under the conditions of hitler's aggression in europe.

or to receive protection from the unloved, but soviet union, which would give the opportunity to preserve their security and their independence. in general, the people demanded some changes, they associated some kind of order with the soviet power and demanded the overthrow of these fascist regimes.

latvian and lithuanian socialist republics. in early august, they were accepted into the soviet union. at its first session, the saeima adopted a declaration on the establishment of soviet power in latvia on the entry of the new soviet socialist republics into the soviet union. long live soviet latvia. the change of power in the baltics led to political purges. according to

official statements by the soviet secret services , only german intelligence agents and counter-revolutionary underground fighters were arrested. in reality, the repressions affected innocent people as well. during 1940 and 1941, people were expelled from estonia, about 17,500 from lithuania, 1,500 from latvia, many of whom later died in stalin's prison camps. as always in that there was a lot of indiscriminate stuff, here and there they imprisoned people suspected by chance, and somewhere in june of 1941 deportations began. all these things are now being used to... prove that this happened, these republics were seized, everything was much more complicated, condemning the molotov-ribbentrop pact in words, in

fact, many countries, having gained independence, continue to enjoy its fruits. in the summer of 1940, the ussr annexed bessarabia, which had been seized by romania, on the territory of which modern moldova would later emerge. belarus and ukraine received vast territories in the west, which are still part of these states today. as an act of soviet aggression, but none of the new states ever gave up the territories acquired thanks to this document.

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