I consider this video penance for the borders in the Denmark episode. This episode was originally going to be about the Sinking of the Bismarck but since everyone had covered it fairly recently I've opted to cover this instead. Hope you enjoy.
The consequences of the pact though are as long as the He Will Not Divide Us stream - small, but still deep. Transnistria and Russians in the Baltic States being a prime example.
Missed a golden opportunity to have both Hitler and Stalin holding "soon" signs while glaring at each other. Optionally, Hitler's could have said "sooner".
@@dlxmarks Yeah, like Germany and the Axis occupied already half of Europe. Which meant many people and many advanced technology to fight against. If the war would've ended without declaring war on the Soviets, the Axis probably would have been the winner in the long game. Well, without Japan dropping a bomb on the US(and yes, I know, it was a series of bombings on the Pacific Theatre American Militiary bases.) they probably could've won without the American joining in on the landing in France, also the actual recapturing.
@@martinhorvath4117 "If the war would've ended without declaring war on the Soviets, the Axis probably would have been the winner in the long game." That's still in question. With the RAF winning the Battle of Britain, Germany failing to push through South Africa, the USSR militarizing at a breakneck speed (and its third five year plan being diverted from the onset to focus on military equipment in lieu of consumer goods), and Germany still being severely oil-starved in case of total war (as all naval shipments are blockaded, with the Romanian Ploesti oil fields being the only reliable source of fuel for the Axis), Germany would constantly be at threat of getting invaded by the USSR. In hindsight, if by, say, 1946 or so, Nazi Germany could develop nukes, then yeah, it might come out the victor. But a Soviet invasion around that time could prove catastrophic. Germany couldn't survive a protracted war - the Soviet economy was just too powerful. And Operation Barbarossa was already an astounding success - yet they still lost. They still had to demobilize for the Stalingrad campaign. Now imagine if, from the onset, Nazi Germany couldn't push much into the USSR.
@Funtime Florian his various decisions were emotionally influenced like invading ussr without finishing west completely, declaring war on japan, diverting central army which was supposed to take moscow before winter towards leningrad and ukraine. He was really a noob in war tactics but as a state leader he was quite clever.
Hitler took control of France and Belgium coast line, which got rid of the buffer to the British Isles, within 50 to a 100 years, Germany could launch a naval offensive to 'conquer' Britain. Britain had no choice but to fully supply the Soviet Union with armaments (along with US Lend-Lease). Similar to how Israel supplied Iran in the 1980s. Hitler and his advisors knew this.
While the agreement was doomed to fail and Stalin’s shock at Barbarossa was completely unwarranted, it was still a massive boon for the USSR both diplomatically and in terms of preparing the industry for war. Every second bought by the pact was a second used to rehabilitate the military and strengthen industrial capacity and prepare industrial evacuations to the East. The pact also allowed the USSR to establish its claims over Bessarabia, Poland, and the Baltics, ensuring massive Soviet gains in the event of a German defeat.
I vaguely remember reading an anecdote about Hitler laughing so hard he started crying when the German high command had a party and someone started going through all the treaties Ribbentrop had negotiated for them and remarking how Germany had violated every single one of the treaties.
It's scary if you think about it. I've been reading about Hitler's plans for a "Greater German Reich" in East Europe, he planned to completely Germanize the Baltic nations and then purge the Slavic peoples (Polish, Russians, etc.) by either genocide or forced removal. He didn't want all of Russia necessarily, but a sizable western part of it and nearly all the other Eastern European countries, which would then be populated by Germanic migrants. Combine this with the Jewish Holocaust, and it might have been the biggest genocide in history apart from maybe Mao's China.
@@faissalel7363 Nowhere close. 99% of natives died because of disease. European colonists simply didn't had the firepower back then commit that level of genocide.
Papa Stalin: 2:04 The most important benefit for the USSR is the guarantee that Germany won't invade. Old Pal Hitler: 1941 Oh boy I'm gonna ruin this man's whole career. Old Pal Hitler: 1945 Well that didn't go as we expected...
dude, you just ruined a perfectly good opportunity, it should have been this: Old Pal Hitler: 1941 Oh boy I'm gonna ruin this man's whole career. Old Pal Stalin: 1945 No U I dislike
Initially I was a bit sceptic about the shorter videos, but the frequencies and variety of topics really is better than the 10 minute format. Keep it up
@@HistoryMatters While I think it's great you're enjoying it more, I also can't help but miss some of the longer more in depth videos. These are interesting but rarely give me much more info than what I already know.
I wouldn't say "better" than the 10 min. ones, but they're definitely enjoyable. I was worried such short videos would be disappointing and not be able to cover much, but I've been pleasantly surprised. Heck, if I want longer stuff to binge, I save up a few, then watch them all in one go, hehe. :D
One other interesting aspect of their agreement was that Stalin also agreed to hand over some German communists who had fled to Russia in order to escape from the Nazis. This further underlines the extent to which Stalin wasn't very ideologically oriented.
this video kinda misses out Stalin's proposal of alliance with britain and then Britain wanting an alliance with Stalin to deter Hitler which is why Hitler agreed to the pact.
AFGuidesHD just a BS. As Churchill recalls, documents obtained after the war suggested that Stalin decided to struck a deal with Germany in February 1939, if he ever had an idea to deal with his archrivals England and France at all.
The "alliance" proposal of the soviets included free hand in Baltic States and Poland, which is more or less what they got in a deal with Germans. Also, lets not forget that in 1939 Germany still looked quite innocent compared to the soviets which starved tens of millions people to death, murdered plenty too and organized a great purge barely two years before, in 1937.
Communism: an ideology famous for war, famine, and being supported by capitalist teenagers who’ve never experienced it because they think they’re gods of knowledge I guess
That's nothing. When playing CK2 a once, Lithuania somehow ended as: a bunch of provinces on the Baltic. A larger bunch of provinces in Central Asia. And a single county on the NW shore of the Caspian Sea. Which was the capital. Oh, and the king of Lithuania was a Hindu.
1:54 Stalin: “It’s over Hitler, I have the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact.” Hitler: “You underestimate my Tripartite Pact.” Stalin: “Don’t try it.” Hitler: “AHHHHHHH” **Operation Barbarossa** Stalin: **de-limbs Hitler with Operation Uranus**
One important thing about the Winter war, as bad as it went for the Soviets, Finland was bullied and gave up territory and the amount of casualties the USSR accepted was instrumental in convincing the three Baltic states to surrender and Romania to give up Bessarabia and Bukovina. They saw the Winter war and made their own conclusions, they didn't have a narrow isthmus that was fortified for 20 years. I'm not a tankie btw this is just facts. Hitler took the wrong lesson from that war - that the Red Army will be easy to defeat.
the red army would've been easy to defeat if the Lend Lease agreements weren't signed. seriously, Russia's army was almost worthless until they recieved almost half of thier military hardware and hundreds of billions (in todays money) from the US and the UK. There are only so many people you can throw at an enemy.
Barbarossa was stupid, but not because they couldn't defeat Russia. Barbarossa was stupid because it gave the US and the UK the motive to fund the USSR. Hitler was thinking too small scale.
i mean... he was winning against them though. it took a fuck ton of lend lease from the US and an naval invasion on the western front for the russians to actually make significant progress instead of barely holding a few cities
That's part of the reason the Soviets didn't get involved with the Pacific war after they "turned face." That, and they where busy beating off the Nazis.
At some point you could say they did - Calvary was 10% of Polish Army in those times. They were also kinda desperate - they didn't try to destroy tanks with their lances, but when the Germans were looking out of the tanks they used their sabers to cut their heads. Unfortunately, that wasn't enough.
At 0:22 "....Adolf Hitler, who had some expansionist ideas...." I've heard the British have a knack for understatement....but I didn't know some of them were that good at it!!!!
After the Battle of Britain failed and the RAF managed to launch air raids on Berlin, Molotov and Ribbentrop met to continue dividing up territory. They had to meet in a bunker in case another raid happened. Ribbentrop boasted “England is finished.” Molotov asked “Then what are we doing in this place?”
May I ask you why you didn't mention the negotiations between the USSR, the UK and France that took place prior to Molotov-Ribbentrop pact? Those negotiations where the British delegation was headed by Sir Reginald Drax, who was not authorized to guarantee anything to the Soviet Union and instructed by the British government to prolong the discussions as long as possible and avoid answering the question that whether Poland would agree to permit Soviet troops to enter the country if the Germans invaded. Don't you think it... matters?
at least the soviet invested heavily in the economies in those occupied countries and werent sorting and killing people based on their race. to communists all people are equal.. just be sure to be a communist
@@gumdeo the early phases of the oviet union were ugly and evil but the letter phases became less evil and more devoded to advancing the economy through socialism, still didnt work out well
@@LukeTEvans yeah, things like that usually don't go well if you are an empire consisting of occupied and oppressed people, and pretty much everything you do is of piss pot quality.
Fun fact: German and Soviet forces actually fought each other in small skirmishes during the invasion of Poland after German troops overran territory promised to the Soviets. The reason for this was because those territories had oil that the Germans wanted. So even before Operation Barbarossa the Germans and Soviets were fighting each other
I don't think Stalin was naive to the fact that hitler was going to invade, if anything I think he signed it to extend the peace and use that time to modernize the USSR's industry since it was far underindustrialized compared to Germany.
In 1940 USSR wanted to join Axis , but Germany rejected. In 1941 USSR wanted to attack Germany first, but Winter War with Finalnd which USSR loosed, forced Hitler to attack USSR, because of it weackness.
That was more of a golpe than an actual revolution. Communism was introduced by the Russians, when Ceausescu came to govern there already was a communist ruling. And even though he was communist, he was a different breed and sought political and economic independence from the eastern block. Russians didn’t like this one either. Just watch reactions of Romanians right after dec. 1989, a lot of them weren’t even aware of what was going on. One thing they got right though: our country will be ruled by foreigners again. And so it happened.
So, Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, if I have to put it simply, is just a way of two dudes saying "We don't get in your way, you don't get in our way, let's trade some stuff..."
Thats the basic the idea behind a "Non-agression pact", that Hitler had with all the powers in Europe. The politics is however more complicated with Poland being a nationalist power and an ally of Germany in the divide of Czechoslovakia and GB sending its envoy to USSR with alliance proposal in august 1939... by sea and with no authority to sign anything...
Excellent account of what happened. I am in awe of your superbly presented history accounts! Accurate, yet witty and entertaining. I am sure you have heard of the bizarre Pact of Rapallo between Bolshevist USSR and Weimar Germany that sprang out of the Genoa conference in 1921 and ultimately led to the disastrous French occupation of the Rhineland-Palatinate. You should do a 'programme' about this. And, I'm sure would agree it underlay this 'Pact'
I think both knew it was a time buyer and not any sort of actual guarantee. Hitler was extremely outspoken about communism and was the main reason he got elected, and Stalin while being less outspoken about his enemies than Hitler was, still knew the Third Reich was a much larger threat than the western allies, and was far less likely to appease it's enemies. Contrary to "omg it was a complete surprise!" narrative, the USSR was preparing for war with the Third Reich, but I believe they thought they would have more time (which is likely why Hitler invaded it so soon, believing he could defeat it before it got too strong). Really I think it's just a case of Hitler gambling and losing, which is understandable considering the enemies Germany made and the situation they were in at the time, and as for losing that also wasn't that much of a surprise for the same reasons. In the end nobody really knows for sure but the people alive and involved then, but it's an interesting topic.
......and again, when there's talk over this pact, the fact that Romania was ripped off by the USSR is a forgotten fact, people only seem to remember Poland, the Baltic states and Finland
This completely ignores that Stalin was the first one to propose an alliance with France, Britain, and Poland against Germany before the war even started. France was interested, but Britain and Poland shot it down because they hated communism more than they feared the Nazis. Stalin always knew the Nazis would invade eventually, Hitler literally wrote a book about it. The Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact was a last resort to buy space and time against the inevitable invasion after the preemptive alliance was refused.
'first one to propose an alliance with France, Britain, and Poland against Germany' was refused because stalin had a well known history of breaking promises and pacts
British weren't stupid. Since they were an island, unlike France, they could risk playing a bit of 'geopolitics'. Polish people on the other hand failed to realize that the Nazi's saw slavs are 'subhumans', as further shown by the massacre of their intelligentsia, and thus lack geopolitical insights of their British ally. "The Soviet leadership believed that the West wanted to encourage German aggression in the East[36] and to stay neutral in a war initiated by Germany in the hope that Germany and the Soviet Union would wear each other out and put an end to both regimes." - Wikipedia Hitler probably realized this, and thus, didn't begin Barbarossa, until France and Belgian coast lines were in his control.
Stalin knew that it could happen but he did not expect that it would happen that fast, he was still sending gifts to hitler even after the nazis crossed soviet borders. Also the Soviet army was in a vary bad condition which is another hint that the soviets did not expect a german invasion any time soon, otherwise they surely would have prepared their army for this scenario.
@@TheBonecrusherz The thing is, the soviets were preparing their army. Its just that reorganizing it wasnt that easy considering its size. Thats also the reason Hitler didnt finish off the west, he knew that he had to attack now or never.
While watching this I signed a treaty with Joachim von Ribbentrop then when I invaded Finland the truce ended because my arbitrary division number went down according to Germany. No matter, the proletariat will crush the Germans. Update: We have fallen back to the Stalin line while the Allies D-Day, the Germans aren’t taking any troops off the Soviet border and are capitulating to the capitalists. Now the democracies dictate the peace deal and have liberated everything. Communism has failed.
I still don’t understand why the Nazi’s invaded Russia after this agreement. It seemed quite a good deal for them, only having to deal with the western front.
The western front was after the Fall of France more or less secured. The Germans had a firm grip on western Europe and Hitler despised communism and slaves as he considered them Untermenschen. Moreover the Soviets displayed their incompetence in the Winter War and had something the 3 Reich desired very badly... oil.
Read Mein Kampf and You’ll see that Hitler says that Bolshevism can only be destroyed through total war and the lands to the east can be used as Lebensraum
It makes sense if you view a conflict between the USSR and Nazi Germany as inevitable, which it likely was. It's better to invade than be invaded after all.
When the leader of the nation on your east has history's second most famous mustaches and the leader of the one on your west has history's most famous mustaches... RUN!
It would mean, that someone surprisingly offended you, no one helped you, and someone other changed side and started to offend you as well... Then you tried to help... ...And then you've been sold...
this is way too short man, and most of the information given is common knowledge. i miss the days of the 10 minute history videos with the shit i never knew :(
The fact that Russia invaded Poland at the same time as Germany very much does not seem to be common knowledge. 99% of people seem to believe the USSR was completely uninvolved in WWII until the Nazi invasion, because of post-war propaganda that recast them as always being allies all along. Stuff like the Winter War really should be included in WWII, but it's not because that would make the Soviets look bad
LK - if you are a patron, okay to your whining. But if you are not? What the heck are you whining about? You ain't paying squat for entertainment and historic knowledge. He owes you ZIP. You don't like it - leave. Sheesh.
It's weird Moldova is the only country to maintain the legacy of the Molotov Ribbentrop pact after the end of the Soviet Union. Presmumably they must be grateful the Soviets conquered them. It's thanks to Stalin that rather than be part of the same country as everyone else that shares their culture and language they can now choose to standalone as the poorest country in Europe.
Eh the molotov Ribbentrop pact borders are mostly todays borders minus Germany... Polish terriotories lost becaue of the pact are now part of Ukraine belarus and lithuania
0:00 - If you ever visit countries like Hungary, Slovakia, Poland or the Baltic States, it would be a very nasty insult to call them Eastern European.... because they are in Central Europe.
Papa Stalin: 2:04 The most important benefit for the USSR is the guarantee that Germany won't invade. Uncle Hitler 1941: "Oh boy I'm gonna ruin this man's whole career. " Papa Stalin 1943: *Reversal Uno card*
Stalin knew that the war could not be avoided, delaying as much as he could, so he simply made the border further from Moscow. Only he was wrong about the start date
100% false. Sorry. Look it up- several times stalin was warned by his generals and advisors that the nazis were getting ready to attack. Stalin ignored them. Stalin, or perhaps even his administration honestly did not believe Hitler would attack, even if the evidence said otherwise. He (stalin) was simply incompetant. Whats even more hilarious is that hitler incompetance- after mind blowing success in whooping soviet ass- was much greater, because he had golden opportunity to invade moscow with hardly any defence. Instead he ordered the push to moscow halted and to march south on ukrainian oil. Thats where the war turned.
@@WhenInDarknessSeekTheLight no it wasn't. Because they tried exactly thT and did not get the oil for themselves anyway. And they were way over leveraged in stalingrad. Which made no strategic sense.
@@Mentol_ and yet he did not prepare massive defenses on the eastern front. In the end though it didn't matter. Stalin lack of prepare helped the allies the best. Because the Germans reached really deep into soviet territory from their mind blowing successes and became over leveraged on really stupid objectives like a city with the word Stalin in its name. That was main reason why they lost. So it turned out well for everybody that Stalin was an idiot at first and Hitler was smart. It gave perfect opening for Stalin to get smarter and Hitler to get overly cocky and over play his hand.
@@jayck7686 Ribbentrop was upset as he held some admiration for Stalin and saw Britain and the United States as the biggest threat. Still, he fell in line with Hitler's decision to invade Russia. Molotov and Stalin saw Britain's influence as a bigger threat than Nazi Germany, but this all changed with Hitler's invasion as well. Molotov would always defend Stalin throughout his life.
a paper that's not an alliance that was meant to maybe stall the incoming war vs actual alliance that pretended not to be. Oh sorry "non-aggresssion" pact between countries that didn't share any border...yet. You lost, tankie.
I think you could also cover, that before setting up the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact, Hitler & Ribbentrop actually met with Polish foreign-affairs minister Józef Beck, and they tried to negotiate a pact with Poland against USSR. Their terms weren't accepted by the Polish though and we know how it all ended.
This happened after Hitler had made an agreement only to take certain parts of Czechoslovakia, and the invaded all of it. Poland had reasons to distrusts the Germans after that, as did everyone else.
@@AzureRT456 so, how will you explain: - 1972 - first Polish guy in space (Mirosław Hermaszewski) - 2014 - first Polish Satelite (Lem) - 2019 - Polish equipment in Mars (,,Mole" drill)
The first question arises. We talk all the time about the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact. We repeat this after our European colleagues. Question: Was this the only document signed by one of the European countries, then the Soviet Union, with fascist Germany? It turns out that this is not at all the case. I'll just list them with your permission. So, the Declaration on the Non-Use of Force between Germany and Poland. This is, in fact, the so-called Pilsudski-Hitler pact. Signed in 1934. In fact, this is a non-aggression pact. Then - the Anglo-German naval agreement of 1935. Great Britain provided Hitler with the opportunity to have his own military fleet, which was essentially forbidden to him, or reduced to a minimum by the results of the First World War. Then the joint Anglo-German declaration of Chamberlain and Hitler, signed on September 30, 1938, agreed by them on the initiative of Chamberlain. It stated that "the signed Munich agreement, as well as the Anglo-German maritime agreement symbolize ..." and so on, and so on. The creation of a legal framework between the two states continued. That's not all. Franco-German Declaration signed on December 6, 1938 in Paris by the French and German Foreign Ministers Bonn and Ribbentrop. Finally, the agreement between the Republic of Lithuania and the German Reich, signed on March 22, 1939 in Berlin by the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Lithuania and the same Ribbentop, stating that the Klaipeda Territory will again be reunited with the German Reich. And the Non-Aggression Pact between the German Reich and Latvia of June 7, 1939. Thus, the Treaty between the Soviet Union and Germany was the last in a series of those signed by other European countries, as it were, interested in preserving peace in Europe. At the same time, I would like to note that the Soviet Union agreed to sign this document only after all possibilities were exhausted and all the proposals of the Soviet Union to create a unified security system, an anti-fascist coalition, in fact, in Europe were rejected.
I consider this video penance for the borders in the Denmark episode.
This episode was originally going to be about the Sinking of the Bismarck but since everyone had covered it fairly recently I've opted to cover this instead.
Hope you enjoy.
I can't imagine why the Bismarck is such a popular topic right now...
[He says, with Sabaton's video in his TH-cam history]
Very good video
History Matters could you still do the sinking of the Bismarck. Even if others have covered it, it’s nice to see it put in ur style.
History Matters Will you do an episode of the 1989 Romanian Revolution?
History Matters Will you do an episode of the 1989 Romanian Revolution?
This video is just as long as the pact lasted.
Lol
The consequences of the pact though are as long as the He Will Not Divide Us stream - small, but still deep. Transnistria and Russians in the Baltic States being a prime example.
ok, that’s a bit exaggerated.
saying it lasted that long is a big stretch
long enough to take Scandinavia, France and the Balkans
i just love this comment
Missed a golden opportunity to have both Hitler and Stalin holding "soon" signs while glaring at each other. Optionally, Hitler's could have said "sooner".
Unfortunately we'll never find out but I would dearly love to know how Stalin thought things in Europe would play out right up until June 22, 1941.
@@dlxmarks Yeah, like Germany and the Axis occupied already half of Europe.
Which meant many people and many advanced technology to fight against.
If the war would've ended without declaring war on the Soviets, the Axis probably would have been the winner in the long game.
Well, without Japan dropping a bomb on the US(and yes, I know, it was a series of bombings on the Pacific Theatre American Militiary bases.) they probably could've won without the American joining in on the landing in France, also the actual recapturing.
@@martinhorvath4117
"If the war would've ended without declaring war on the Soviets, the Axis probably would have been the winner in the long game."
That's still in question. With the RAF winning the Battle of Britain, Germany failing to push through South Africa, the USSR militarizing at a breakneck speed (and its third five year plan being diverted from the onset to focus on military equipment in lieu of consumer goods), and Germany still being severely oil-starved in case of total war (as all naval shipments are blockaded, with the Romanian Ploesti oil fields being the only reliable source of fuel for the Axis), Germany would constantly be at threat of getting invaded by the USSR.
In hindsight, if by, say, 1946 or so, Nazi Germany could develop nukes, then yeah, it might come out the victor. But a Soviet invasion around that time could prove catastrophic. Germany couldn't survive a protracted war - the Soviet economy was just too powerful. And Operation Barbarossa was already an astounding success - yet they still lost. They still had to demobilize for the Stalingrad campaign. Now imagine if, from the onset, Nazi Germany couldn't push much into the USSR.
@@roadent217 the reason is the vast underdeveloped land of Russia, from Tallin to Stalingrad is a huge front.
Easy to take, hard to defend.
@@FableBlaze bro you have no clue wtf you are talking about.
Hitler: "Don't help the allies"
Stalin: "Ok"
Stalin: "Don't help the Axis"
Hitler: "Ok"
Hitler: "I am the Axis"
@@settekwan2708 not yet
Stalin:”don’t invade me”
Hitler:”nah”
Hitler: *ignites lightsaber* “Its treason then”
@@settekwan2708 Emperor Palpatine: Hey Hitler I am The Senate.
2:09 "And a special thanks to all of these patrons you see on screen." I only see one patron on screen. He's standing behind all of the words.
Stalin:makes an agreement with Hitler
Hitler:You fool you fell victim to one of the classic blunders.
@Funtime Florian his various decisions were emotionally influenced like invading ussr without finishing west completely, declaring war on japan, diverting central army which was supposed to take moscow before winter towards leningrad and ukraine. He was really a noob in war tactics but as a state leader he was quite clever.
@Funtime Florian I mean to do that the Red Army would have to be fully mobilized. I don't think Hitler wanted that.
Hitler took control of France and Belgium coast line, which got rid of the buffer to the British Isles, within 50 to a 100 years, Germany could launch a naval offensive to 'conquer' Britain. Britain had no choice but to fully supply the Soviet Union with armaments (along with US Lend-Lease). Similar to how Israel supplied Iran in the 1980s. Hitler and his advisors knew this.
Inconceivable!
While the agreement was doomed to fail and Stalin’s shock at Barbarossa was completely unwarranted, it was still a massive boon for the USSR both diplomatically and in terms of preparing the industry for war. Every second bought by the pact was a second used to rehabilitate the military and strengthen industrial capacity and prepare industrial evacuations to the East. The pact also allowed the USSR to establish its claims over Bessarabia, Poland, and the Baltics, ensuring massive Soviet gains in the event of a German defeat.
I vaguely remember reading an anecdote about Hitler laughing so hard he started crying when the German high command had a party and someone started going through all the treaties Ribbentrop had negotiated for them and remarking how Germany had violated every single one of the treaties.
It's scary if you think about it. I've been reading about Hitler's plans for a "Greater German Reich" in East Europe, he planned to completely Germanize the Baltic nations and then purge the Slavic peoples (Polish, Russians, etc.) by either genocide or forced removal. He didn't want all of Russia necessarily, but a sizable western part of it and nearly all the other Eastern European countries, which would then be populated by Germanic migrants. Combine this with the Jewish Holocaust, and it might have been the biggest genocide in history apart from maybe Mao's China.
@@thunderbird1921 zamn
@@thunderbird1921 the genocide of the natives would still be way larger
@@faissalel7363 which natives
@@faissalel7363
Nowhere close. 99% of natives died because of disease. European colonists simply didn't had the firepower back then commit that level of genocide.
Papa Stalin: 2:04 The most important benefit for the USSR is the guarantee that Germany won't invade.
Old Pal Hitler: 1941 Oh boy I'm gonna ruin this man's whole career.
Old Pal Hitler: 1945 Well that didn't go as we expected...
Henrich Himler:No shit sherlock
USA: Laughs in lend lease
dude, you just ruined a perfectly good opportunity, it should have been this:
Old Pal Hitler: 1941 Oh boy I'm gonna ruin this man's whole career.
Old Pal Stalin: 1945 No U
I dislike
As Russian I can tell you, that they had us in the first half, not gonna lie
@@christiancage7647 that was pure gold
I see a Finland, Winter War special at some point? :)
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@@Nietabs Burger?
@@totoro5129 Burger.
Initially I was a bit sceptic about the shorter videos, but the frequencies and variety of topics really is better than the 10 minute format. Keep it up
For what it's worth, I'm really enjoying making videos a lot more.
@@HistoryMatters I'm really enjoying the short little nuggets of history for the increased variety of topics too.
@@HistoryMatters While I think it's great you're enjoying it more, I also can't help but miss some of the longer more in depth videos. These are interesting but rarely give me much more info than what I already know.
I wouldn't say "better" than the 10 min. ones, but they're definitely enjoyable. I was worried such short videos would be disappointing and not be able to cover much, but I've been pleasantly surprised. Heck, if I want longer stuff to binge, I save up a few, then watch them all in one go, hehe. :D
@@HistoryMatters that's the main thing
One other interesting aspect of their agreement was that Stalin also agreed to hand over some German communists who had fled to Russia in order to escape from the Nazis. This further underlines the extent to which Stalin wasn't very ideologically oriented.
German communits where mostly revisionists and trotskiests
@Nathan Quinn
No, he was a smart man who used his intelligence for evil.
Stalin wasn't ideological, he was just a egomaniac who used ideology to get what he wanted.
Trotsky should have been the leader of the USSR
@Uni BlackSister Trotsky would be less of a shit than Stalin but I doubt USSR could survive German Attack without the 5 year plan tho
this video kinda misses out Stalin's proposal of alliance with britain and then Britain wanting an alliance with Stalin to deter Hitler which is why Hitler agreed to the pact.
AFGuidesHD just a BS. As Churchill recalls, documents obtained after the war suggested that Stalin decided to struck a deal with Germany in February 1939, if he ever had an idea to deal with his archrivals England and France at all.
The "alliance" proposal of the soviets included free hand in Baltic States and Poland, which is more or less what they got in a deal with Germans. Also, lets not forget that in 1939 Germany still looked quite innocent compared to the soviets which starved tens of millions people to death, murdered plenty too and organized a great purge barely two years before, in 1937.
Oskar another bs. France and GB did not offer Soviets any territories.☝️
@@DrSilktest7 Read once again "proposal of the soviets", and again.
Oskar please, provide links to the sources.
Poland: aw shit here we go again.
Round 2 that was
It's free real estate
"Stalin continued his honorable campaign of pushing around smaller nations"
What's interesting, the Estonia lost it's independence because of Polish submarine - ORP ,,Eagle"...
@@Admiral45-10 Not like the Soviets wouldn't come up with other excuses for occupation (e.g. shooting down of the Kaleva aeroplane)
Communism: an ideology famous for war, famine, and being supported by capitalist teenagers who’ve never experienced it because they think they’re gods of knowledge I guess
@@looinrims Capitalism: A ideology famous for child labour, unlimited workhours, giving power to the money and waging war for corporate interests.
@@JastwatchingYT Did you ever lived in communist country? if not STFU.
Lithuania looks a bit odd
Then again all my border knowlege comes from hoi4
Vilnius was polish
I like playing with historical AI off so usually lithuania rufuses to give up memel and they die
That's nothing. When playing CK2 a once, Lithuania somehow ended as: a bunch of provinces on the Baltic. A larger bunch of provinces in Central Asia. And a single county on the NW shore of the Caspian Sea. Which was the capital. Oh, and the king of Lithuania was a Hindu.
Ah buddy, you know nothing. I've seen screnshots from EU3 of "Papal Munster" in the middle of the Americas.
Poland fought against Lithuania over Vilnius/Wilno
1:54
Stalin: “It’s over Hitler, I have the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact.”
Hitler: “You underestimate my Tripartite Pact.”
Stalin: “Don’t try it.”
Hitler: “AHHHHHHH” **Operation Barbarossa**
Stalin: **de-limbs Hitler with Operation Uranus**
"Germany never invaded and they lived happily ever after, ze end." mmm i do like a good bedtime story
theres a reason why they call it work of fiction too
"As demonstrated by both is his annexation of Austria and Czechoslovakia"
*Sad Memel noises*
One important thing about the Winter war, as bad as it went for the Soviets, Finland was bullied and gave up territory and the amount of casualties the USSR accepted was instrumental in convincing the three Baltic states to surrender and Romania to give up Bessarabia and Bukovina. They saw the Winter war and made their own conclusions, they didn't have a narrow isthmus that was fortified for 20 years. I'm not a tankie btw this is just facts. Hitler took the wrong lesson from that war - that the Red Army will be easy to defeat.
the red army would've been easy to defeat if the Lend Lease agreements weren't signed. seriously, Russia's army was almost worthless until they recieved almost half of thier military hardware and hundreds of billions (in todays money) from the US and the UK. There are only so many people you can throw at an enemy.
Barbarossa was stupid, but not because they couldn't defeat Russia. Barbarossa was stupid because it gave the US and the UK the motive to fund the USSR. Hitler was thinking too small scale.
i mean... he was winning against them though. it took a fuck ton of lend lease from the US and an naval invasion on the western front for the russians to actually make significant progress instead of barely holding a few cities
Let's invade Poland and be allies - Russia
Ribbentrop: *_I am inevitable_*
stop
Glad I did it today. You have no power over me anymore.
Dams its not really a spoiler, just a reference
@@AncientAccounts and I am.......... Awesome steve
I love how quickly this became a meme
I love the "I promise" along with stalins distrustful stare haha
no mention about how Ribentrop got fired by hitler because "Why do I need a foreign minister if everybody is at war with me?"
Well, that makes sense.
You know before this video, I never considered the “don’t help Japan” aspect of the Pact.
+1
Xd
That's part of the reason the Soviets didn't get involved with the Pacific war after they "turned face." That, and they where busy beating off the Nazis.
The winged hussars didn't arrive :(
They didn't come down the mountainside...
They got mowed down by tanks
Imperial Loyalist well they killed a lot of tanks, mad lads with AT rifles on their horses
@Ricardo VS So You really think they charged with lances on the german tanks?
At some point you could say they did - Calvary was 10% of Polish Army in those times. They were also kinda desperate - they didn't try to destroy tanks with their lances, but when the Germans were looking out of the tanks they used their sabers to cut their heads. Unfortunately, that wasn't enough.
At 0:22
"....Adolf Hitler, who had some expansionist ideas...."
I've heard the British have a knack for understatement....but I didn't know some of them were that good at it!!!!
Best history channel on TH-cam
It’s 2022, and Eastern Europe...is getting a bit nervous...
But it's just Russia
After the Battle of Britain failed and the RAF managed to launch air raids on Berlin, Molotov and Ribbentrop met to continue dividing up territory. They had to meet in a bunker in case another raid happened. Ribbentrop boasted “England is finished.” Molotov asked “Then what are we doing in this place?”
Chad Molotov
Molotov-Ribbentrop pact: *The guide to screw your neighbor again beacouse you just can't leave him be*
Both nations were literally gearing up for an eventual war between the two since the mid 30s but okay.
Hitler holding a sign that says "I promise."
"Promise to go a little Napoleonic when you're not looking!!
😎
Well done for including the Memelland changes with Lithuania in the video!
This deserves more views
The Soviets dodged a bullet. Could you imagine would have happened if Hitler has broken his promise?
Actually, I can imagine that quite vividly.
"'Attempted' being the operative word there." Sadly, this pushed Finland into Hitler's arms until the Moscow Armistice and Lapland War of 1944.
Yeah remember boys and girls it's illegal to talk about this in Russia...
May I ask you why you didn't mention the negotiations between the USSR, the UK and France that took place prior to Molotov-Ribbentrop pact? Those negotiations where the British delegation was headed by Sir Reginald Drax, who was not authorized to guarantee anything to the Soviet Union and instructed by the British government to prolong the discussions as long as possible and avoid answering the question that whether Poland would agree to permit Soviet troops to enter the country if the Germans invaded. Don't you think it... matters?
Yeah suprisingly people never talk about them. Poland and Allies never wanted any real deal with Litvinov.
Just like in true Soviet fashion, they both shared Eastern Europe.
*Soviet Union anthem intensifies*
Bla bla bla shut your mouth stupid kid. Your jokes are lame. This was real history dummie not a game not a joke.
at least the soviet invested heavily in the economies in those occupied countries and werent sorting and killing people based on their race. to communists all people are equal.. just be sure to be a communist
@@LukeTEvans Stalin targeted and deported entire nations.
@@gumdeo the early phases of the oviet union were ugly and evil but the letter phases became less evil and more devoded to advancing the economy through socialism, still didnt work out well
@@LukeTEvans yeah, things like that usually don't go well if you are an empire consisting of occupied and oppressed people, and pretty much everything you do is of piss pot quality.
I love your channel keep up the great stuff!!
Fun fact: German and Soviet forces actually fought each other in small skirmishes during the invasion of Poland after German troops overran territory promised to the Soviets. The reason for this was because those territories had oil that the Germans wanted. So even before Operation Barbarossa the Germans and Soviets were fighting each other
Brah that actually pretty interesting.
Could you do one about the Spanish Succession War and the Irish War Of Independence please?
The Easter Rebelion is much more interesenting in my opinion.
1:40
*... **_"attempted"_** being operative word there.*
Priceless snark ;) 😁😁😁😁😂😂😂😂🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
I love this channel so much.
Greatest anime betrayals of all time
1:33 *Me, eyeing the last piece of chicken at the dinner table*
I was there when they signed the pact
sign: I promise
back of the sign: soon....
I don't think Stalin was naive to the fact that hitler was going to invade, if anything I think he signed it to extend the peace and use that time to modernize the USSR's industry since it was far underindustrialized compared to Germany.
In 1940 USSR wanted to join Axis , but Germany rejected. In 1941 USSR wanted to attack Germany first, but Winter War with Finalnd which USSR loosed, forced Hitler to attack USSR, because of it weackness.
@Polonia Hitler also considered part of Poland as rightful German Land.
@@Tottenham9500 Stop being a moron, none of your words are correct.
Cool video!Please make one about the Romanian Revolution in 1989🇷🇴🇷🇴🇷🇴
What did the wife do? Just curious.
@@brandonlyon730 had influence over him nad way he ruled country
@@brandonlyon730 due to Influence on govt. and self run cabals (favoritism), just like Mao's wife & Trial of Gang of Four
That was more of a golpe than an actual revolution. Communism was introduced by the Russians, when Ceausescu came to govern there already was a communist ruling. And even though he was communist, he was a different breed and sought political and economic independence from the eastern block. Russians didn’t like this one either. Just watch reactions of Romanians right after dec. 1989, a lot of them weren’t even aware of what was going on. One thing they got right though: our country will be ruled by foreigners again. And so it happened.
These fact are never taught in Russian history classes.
the molotov ribbentrop pact is called that because it was as stable as a molotov cocktail.
So, Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, if I have to put it simply, is just a way of two dudes saying "We don't get in your way, you don't get in our way, let's trade some stuff..."
Thats the basic the idea behind a "Non-agression pact", that Hitler had with all the powers in Europe.
The politics is however more complicated with Poland being a nationalist power and an ally of Germany in the divide of Czechoslovakia and GB sending its envoy to USSR with alliance proposal in august 1939... by sea and with no authority to sign anything...
"... let's trade some stuff that we don't own, yet"
Exactly 83 years ago is when this pact was signed!
One of the perks of winning WW2:
The invasion of Poland is blamed only on Germany
Central Europe does not forget.
Excellent account of what happened. I am in awe of your superbly presented history accounts! Accurate, yet witty and entertaining.
I am sure you have heard of the bizarre Pact of Rapallo between Bolshevist USSR and Weimar Germany that sprang out of the Genoa conference in 1921 and ultimately led to the disastrous French occupation of the Rhineland-Palatinate. You should do a 'programme' about this. And, I'm sure would agree it underlay this 'Pact'
And here comes the tankies
Joachim is pronounce “Yo-ah-chim” with the “ch” being sort of a softend hard “c” sound.
I think both knew it was a time buyer and not any sort of actual guarantee. Hitler was extremely outspoken about communism and was the main reason he got elected, and Stalin while being less outspoken about his enemies than Hitler was, still knew the Third Reich was a much larger threat than the western allies, and was far less likely to appease it's enemies. Contrary to "omg it was a complete surprise!" narrative, the USSR was preparing for war with the Third Reich, but I believe they thought they would have more time (which is likely why Hitler invaded it so soon, believing he could defeat it before it got too strong). Really I think it's just a case of Hitler gambling and losing, which is understandable considering the enemies Germany made and the situation they were in at the time, and as for losing that also wasn't that much of a surprise for the same reasons. In the end nobody really knows for sure but the people alive and involved then, but it's an interesting topic.
I love your videos, they are great !
1:02 Finland: no.
Make a video about the battle of Wizna/ the defense of poland!
* Looks at name *
Why do you eat it?
No
I'd love to see the Battle of Westerplatte - the second and the longest battles in September Campaign.
The Warsaw Ghetto held out longer against the Germans that Poland did.
poland still lost the war tho.
"The most important benefit for the USSR was of course the guarantee that Germany wouldn't invade it."
But, fun fact: No.
Video on the Bisonette-Moneymaker Pact when?
......and again, when there's talk over this pact, the fact that Romania was ripped off by the USSR is a forgotten fact, people only seem to remember Poland, the Baltic states and Finland
The next episode is one of the top 10 anime betrayals of all time
Normie
@@Cjnw your
This completely ignores that Stalin was the first one to propose an alliance with France, Britain, and Poland against Germany before the war even started. France was interested, but Britain and Poland shot it down because they hated communism more than they feared the Nazis.
Stalin always knew the Nazis would invade eventually, Hitler literally wrote a book about it. The Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact was a last resort to buy space and time against the inevitable invasion after the preemptive alliance was refused.
'first one to propose an alliance with France, Britain, and Poland against Germany'
was refused because stalin had a well known history of breaking promises and pacts
British weren't stupid. Since they were an island, unlike France, they could risk playing a bit of 'geopolitics'. Polish people on the other hand failed to realize that the Nazi's saw slavs are 'subhumans', as further shown by the massacre of their intelligentsia, and thus lack geopolitical insights of their British ally.
"The Soviet leadership believed that the West wanted to encourage German aggression in the East[36] and to stay neutral in a war initiated by Germany in the hope that Germany and the Soviet Union would wear each other out and put an end to both regimes." - Wikipedia
Hitler probably realized this, and thus, didn't begin Barbarossa, until France and Belgian coast lines were in his control.
@@pellergin Polish people knew that the communists saw everyone who isnt in power as "subhumans"
Stalin knew that it could happen but he did not expect that it would happen that fast, he was still sending gifts to hitler even after the nazis crossed soviet borders. Also the Soviet army was in a vary bad condition which is another hint that the soviets did not expect a german invasion any time soon, otherwise they surely would have prepared their army for this scenario.
@@TheBonecrusherz The thing is, the soviets were preparing their army. Its just that reorganizing it wasnt that easy considering its size. Thats also the reason Hitler didnt finish off the west, he knew that he had to attack now or never.
Hitler: How about we both invade Poland and I will definitely not betray you in future
Stalin: Sounds ......... good
OrIgInAl
and i won't not refrain from invading you in the future
How has this only been recommended now?
While watching this I signed a treaty with Joachim von Ribbentrop then when I invaded Finland the truce ended because my arbitrary division number went down according to Germany. No matter, the proletariat will crush the Germans.
Update: We have fallen back to the Stalin line while the Allies D-Day, the Germans aren’t taking any troops off the Soviet border and are capitulating to the capitalists. Now the democracies dictate the peace deal and have liberated everything. Communism has failed.
Hoi4 moment
Nope,the communism didn’t fail
@@huuphuclecao8712any people want to resurrect it. They should live in Cuba for 10 years before they are allowed to own any electric device.
TY 🙏🙏
come on man make a 10 min episode agian
1:39
why isnt petsamo part of finland
I still don’t understand why the Nazi’s invaded Russia after this agreement. It seemed quite a good deal for them, only having to deal with the western front.
The western front was after the Fall of France more or less secured. The Germans had a firm grip on western Europe and Hitler despised communism and slaves as he considered them Untermenschen. Moreover the Soviets displayed their incompetence in the Winter War and had something the 3 Reich desired very badly... oil.
Read Mein Kampf and You’ll see that Hitler says that Bolshevism can only be destroyed through total war and the lands to the east can be used as Lebensraum
It makes sense if you view a conflict between the USSR and Nazi Germany as inevitable, which it likely was. It's better to invade than be invaded after all.
Easy.
*OIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIL*
And then this agreement was upheld and no one tried breaking it at any point in the future.
No one.
*laughs in Operation Barbarossa*
*laughs in winter*
"You talk to much"
-soviet
"Gottverdamn"
-germany
kraut
So if you'll excuse I must cease your exis-
@@georgeamesfort3408opewacion bagbagosa is the thing now you know
Guten Tag Soviet Union my friend Gut news
@@kingbookser da? Wat is it?
When the leader of the nation on your east has history's second most famous mustaches and the leader of the one on your west has history's most famous mustaches... RUN!
Why do i allways ever feel like poland during ww2
gangbanged and helpless?
Everyone is fighting over you?
Seem to have the worst of it all
It would mean, that someone surprisingly offended you, no one helped you, and someone other changed side and started to offend you as well...
Then you tried to help...
...And then you've been sold...
Hitler: "We won't invade you."
Stalin: "Sure"
Hitler in 1941: *invades anyway*
Stalin: "Well that was a lie".
according to this Pact, Hitler and Stalin agreed to divide entire Europe between them, starting with Poland
Absolutely brilliant episode again! Please keep making more!
this is way too short man, and most of the information given is common knowledge. i miss the days of the 10 minute history videos with the shit i never knew :(
Maybe he covered all the he knew :)
I can't get enough of this channel either way.
The fact that Russia invaded Poland at the same time as Germany very much does not seem to be common knowledge. 99% of people seem to believe the USSR was completely uninvolved in WWII until the Nazi invasion, because of post-war propaganda that recast them as always being allies all along. Stuff like the Winter War really should be included in WWII, but it's not because that would make the Soviets look bad
@@andrewcleary9952 how about polish buddying with germany and hungary annexing czechoslovakia? Oh rite no one cares bout that red man bad
@@andrewcleary9952 Pepole also forgget, The polish gov. where mostly colaborators to the hollocaust
LK - if you are a patron, okay to your whining.
But if you are not? What the heck are you whining about?
You ain't paying squat for entertainment and historic knowledge. He owes you ZIP.
You don't like it - leave.
Sheesh.
Good Video!
It's weird Moldova is the only country to maintain the legacy of the Molotov Ribbentrop pact after the end of the Soviet Union.
Presmumably they must be grateful the Soviets conquered them. It's thanks to Stalin that rather than be part of the same country as everyone else that shares their culture and language they can now choose to standalone as the poorest country in Europe.
sarcasm?
@ Aren't Moldovans already Romanians? Wallachia and Moldavia?
Eh the molotov Ribbentrop pact borders are mostly todays borders minus Germany...
Polish terriotories lost becaue of the pact are now part of Ukraine belarus and lithuania
@@command_unit7792 what are you on about? Poland gained more land because of it, not vice versa.
@@antanassmetona4054 I refered to his original comment about moldova being the last remenent of the molotov ribentrop pact
So part of the agreement included driving a wedge between Germany and Japan? You learn something everyday.
0:00 - If you ever visit countries like Hungary, Slovakia, Poland or the Baltic States, it would be a very nasty insult to call them Eastern European.... because they are in Central Europe.
We're the Soviets planing to turn poland on a part of the ussr at the start or they aways planned on turning it on a satelite state?
Hard to say but likely they wanted to annex. Before operation Barbarossa Poland was annexed into the Ukrainian and Belarusian SSRs.
Papa Stalin: 2:04 The most important benefit for the USSR is the guarantee that Germany won't invade.
Uncle Hitler 1941: "Oh boy I'm gonna ruin this man's whole career.
"
Papa Stalin 1943: *Reversal Uno card*
The pact was basically two nations expending and the first nation to be done with expansion to start breaking the pact.
Stalin knew that the war could not be avoided, delaying as much as he could, so he simply made the border further from Moscow. Only he was wrong about the start date
100% false. Sorry. Look it up- several times stalin was warned by his generals and advisors that the nazis were getting ready to attack. Stalin ignored them. Stalin, or perhaps even his administration honestly did not believe Hitler would attack, even if the evidence said otherwise. He (stalin) was simply incompetant. Whats even more hilarious is that hitler incompetance- after mind blowing success in whooping soviet ass- was much greater, because he had golden opportunity to invade moscow with hardly any defence. Instead he ordered the push to moscow halted and to march south on ukrainian oil. Thats where the war turned.
The message has been corrected.
@@rainbowodysseybyjonlion Naploean took Moscow he still lost, moving on the Cacaucas to seize the oil supplies was the right move.
@@WhenInDarknessSeekTheLight no it wasn't. Because they tried exactly thT and did not get the oil for themselves anyway. And they were way over leveraged in stalingrad. Which made no strategic sense.
@@Mentol_ and yet he did not prepare massive defenses on the eastern front. In the end though it didn't matter. Stalin lack of prepare helped the allies the best. Because the Germans reached really deep into soviet territory from their mind blowing successes and became over leveraged on really stupid objectives like a city with the word Stalin in its name. That was main reason why they lost. So it turned out well for everybody that Stalin was an idiot at first and Hitler was smart. It gave perfect opening for Stalin to get smarter and Hitler to get overly cocky and over play his hand.
Ok but what happened to both Ribbentrop and Molotov after Gemany invaded the USSR in 1941?
Do you think the pact was their own idea or something? Nothing happened to them as a result of signing the pact.
@@rick7424 is there any register on how did they felt, like it being a waste or something
@@jayck7686 Ribbentrop was upset as he held some admiration for Stalin and saw Britain and the United States as the biggest threat. Still, he fell in line with Hitler's decision to invade Russia. Molotov and Stalin saw Britain's influence as a bigger threat than Nazi Germany, but this all changed with Hitler's invasion as well. Molotov would always defend Stalin throughout his life.
Poland: Signs a non-agression pact with Germany
I sleep
USSR: Does the same thing
*REAL SHIT*
Nikola Ćuković literally the appeasement Policy of the UK against Germany. Letting them take Memel, Czechia and Austria.
a paper that's not an alliance that was meant to maybe stall the incoming war
vs
actual alliance that pretended not to be. Oh sorry "non-aggresssion" pact between countries that didn't share any border...yet.
You lost, tankie.
Loving the new format :]
I think you could also cover, that before setting up the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact, Hitler & Ribbentrop actually met with Polish foreign-affairs minister Józef Beck, and they tried to negotiate a pact with Poland against USSR. Their terms weren't accepted by the Polish though and we know how it all ended.
This happened after Hitler had made an agreement only to take certain parts of Czechoslovakia, and the invaded all of it. Poland had reasons to distrusts the Germans after that, as did everyone else.
Hitler: Poland has become a Nuisance for too long and must be dealt with, will you join me in War?
Stalin: Give me 10 turns to prepare
putin is denying such pact existed.
Hitler: I don't want to fight a two front war
Also Hitler: gets into a two front war
Poland: *Stronk*
USSR and Germany: Not anymore
Poland can't into space.
uapdz1i3bdc4tqxvofjcjxokb Polish people were in the space ;)
You’re still everywhere
@@AzureRT456 so, how will you explain:
- 1972 - first Polish guy in space (Mirosław Hermaszewski)
- 2014 - first Polish Satelite (Lem)
- 2019 - Polish equipment in Mars (,,Mole" drill)
@@Admiral45-10
We go back in time and nuke the shit out of Poland.
Operation Barbarosa= occurs
Stalin= surprised picachu
Aka: the two least trustworthy people in history make a deal
Emperor Francis I of Austria can be added to that list as well (he broke at least four treaties with the French alone).
Man you really are awesome
The first question arises. We talk all the time about the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact. We repeat this after our European colleagues. Question: Was this the only document signed by one of the European countries, then the Soviet Union, with fascist Germany? It turns out that this is not at all the case. I'll just list them with your permission.
So, the Declaration on the Non-Use of Force between Germany and Poland. This is, in fact, the so-called Pilsudski-Hitler pact. Signed in 1934. In fact, this is a non-aggression pact.
Then - the Anglo-German naval agreement of 1935. Great Britain provided Hitler with the opportunity to have his own military fleet, which was essentially forbidden to him, or reduced to a minimum by the results of the First World War.
Then the joint Anglo-German declaration of Chamberlain and Hitler, signed on September 30, 1938, agreed by them on the initiative of Chamberlain. It stated that "the signed Munich agreement, as well as the Anglo-German maritime agreement symbolize ..." and so on, and so on. The creation of a legal framework between the two states continued.
That's not all. Franco-German Declaration signed on December 6, 1938 in Paris by the French and German Foreign Ministers Bonn and Ribbentrop.
Finally, the agreement between the Republic of Lithuania and the German Reich, signed on March 22, 1939 in Berlin by the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Lithuania and the same Ribbentop, stating that the Klaipeda Territory will again be reunited with the German Reich.
And the Non-Aggression Pact between the German Reich and Latvia of June 7, 1939.
Thus, the Treaty between the Soviet Union and Germany was the last in a series of those signed by other European countries, as it were, interested in preserving peace in Europe. At the same time, I would like to note that the Soviet Union agreed to sign this document only after all possibilities were exhausted and all the proposals of the Soviet Union to create a unified security system, an anti-fascist coalition, in fact, in Europe were rejected.