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Germany–Soviet Union relations

  • Molotov PlanVyacheslav Molotov rejected the Marshall Plan in 1947, but his economic system had been operating since 1945. The Soviet Union began bilateral trade…
  • Soviet–Japanese Neutrality PactOn the 13th of April 1941, the Soviet Union and the Empire of Japan signed a non-aggression pact in Moscow. This agreement arrived two years after the…
  • Flight and expulsion of Germans (1944–1950)In 1942, Winston Churchill proposed the expulsion of Germans from Eastern Europe to Polish and Czechoslovak governments-in-exile in London.
  • Potsdam AgreementOn the 17th of July 1945, three leaders gathered at Cecilienhof Palace in Potsdam to decide the fate of Europe. Joseph Stalin represented the Soviet Union…
  • Vega programThe Soviet Union launched the first Vega spacecraft on the 15th of December 1984 from Baikonur Cosmodrome in the Kazakh SSR.
  • Stalin NoteOn the 10th of March 1952, Andrei Gromyko delivered a diplomatic note to representatives of the United States, the United Kingdom, and France in Berlin.
  • Treaty on the Final Settlement with Respect to GermanyOn the 1st of August 1945, the Potsdam Agreement established provisional terms for governing Germany after World War II.
  • Potsdam ConferenceThe Potsdam Conference opened on the 17th of July 1945 at Cecilienhof in Potsdam, near Berlin. Harry S. Truman had just assumed the presidency after Franklin…
  • German prisoners of war in the Soviet UnionIn early 1943, the German 6th Army surrendered at Stalingrad. Ninety-one thousand survivors became prisoners of war. Eighty-five thousand died in the months…
  • Tear down this wall!At 2:00 p.m. on the 12th of June 1987, Ronald Reagan stood at the Brandenburg Gate in West Berlin, shielded from East Berlin by two panes of bulletproof…
  • Berlin Crisis of 1961By 1958, East German leader Walter Ulbricht struggled to maintain control of a state facing severe economic hardships. War reparations demanded by the Soviet…
  • OstpolitikIn 1963, Egon Bahr stood before the Evangelische Akademie Tutzing and delivered a speech that would eventually reshape Europe.
  • Occupation of the Baltic statesEarly in the morning of the 24th of August 1939, the Soviet Union and Germany signed a ten-year non-aggression pact. This agreement contained a secret…
  • Kaliningrad OblastIn 1255, the Teutonic Order established a fortress on the ruins of a destroyed Sambian settlement. They named this new stronghold Königsberg to honor Ottokar…