Avoid war: 80 years since the signing of the Nonaggression Treaty between Germany and the USSR
2019-08-23T06:12:02.376Z
On August 23, 1939, People's Commissar for Foreign Affairs of the USSR Vyacheslav Molotov and German Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop signed a non-aggression pact in Moscow. The Soviet Union was not ready to repel potential German aggression, so it had no choice but to conclude an agreement. According to historians, these negotiations allowed to delay the Nazi attack and better prepare for war. The leadership of the USSR for several years tried to negotiate with European leaders to deter Nazi Germany, but did not succeed. In 1934, the Polish authorities signed with Berlin a Declaration on the non-use of force, and in 1938, England, France and Italy approved the annexation of part of Czechoslovakia by the Third Reich by the Munich Agreement. Moscow’s efforts to create an anti-Hitler alliance with London and Paris also failed.
Source: russiart