R. George
Sounds logical, I believe it and assuming it is true. it was an evil, stupid
thing Stalin did
and paid dearly for it. I was in the Communist party at the time and we were
told that Stalin
first offered to join France and England as allies against Hitler and were
turned down? That
also has some logic to it? It would be nice if some paper work came to light to
prove it. I do
know that Stalin had ordered Polish Officers murdered simply because they were
Officers
and considered them a threat. The Russians denied it for years and then
admitted it. Still
Stalin was the USSR leader and did his best against Hitler which most no one
denies.
Stan the man who knows some things but not everything
-----Original Message-----
From: R George <xgeorge@xxxxxxx>
To: sparkscoffee <sparkscoffee@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wed, Aug 31, 2016 1:05 pm
Subject: [sparkscoffee] Hitler was an Idiot part 2
“The sinister news broke upon the world like an explosion,” Winston
Churchill later wrote. And that was just the news the world knew about,
for in addition to the non-aggression pact, the Nazis and Soviets
entered into a secret protocol that only came to light after the conclusion
of
World War II. The two countries took a carving knife to Poland with the
Germans taking the larger western slice. The Soviets were given a free
hand in Bessarabia in southeast Europe and the Baltic states of Estonia,
Latvia and Finland, while Lithuania fell into the German sphere of influence.
Before Ribbentrop left the Kremlin, Stalin pulled him aside. “The Soviet
Government take the new pact very seriously,” the dictator said, and he
could guarantee on his “word of honor that the Soviet Union would not
betray its partner.” Stalin must have wondered if Hitler felt the same,
given the chancellor’s willingness to agree to all Soviet demands as
well as his serial habit of breaking treaties.
“Our pact means that the greatest European powers have agreed to
eliminate the threat of war and to live in peace,” Molotov told the Supreme
Soviet
before it unanimously ratified the pact on the evening of August 31.
Hours later, more than a million German troops crossed the border with
Poland.
World War II had begun. Within weeks, the Soviets occupied eastern
Poland under the guise of protecting its residents from the Germans. Months
later,
Stalin’s troops marched into the Baltics and Bessarabia.
Before the signing of the non-aggression pact, President Franklin D.
Roosevelt warned Stalin that “it was as certain as that the night followed
the day
that as soon as Hitler had conquered France he would turn on Russia
and it would be the Soviets’ turn next.” The words proved prescient when
on
June 22, 1941, Hitler unilaterally broke his deal with Stalin and
launched the largest surprise attack in the history of warfare.
http://www.history.com/news/the-secret-hitler-stalin-pact-75-years-ago ;
