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Germany–Soviet Union relations (1918–1941)
- German–Soviet Axis talksIn November 1940, Vyacheslav Molotov stepped off a train in Berlin to what should have been an impossible scene: an orchestra inside Nazi Germany playing The…
- Soviet offensive plans controversyThe Soviet offensive plans controversy asks one of the most unsettling questions in modern history: was Stalin the one who nearly started the Second World…
- Vyacheslav MolotovVyacheslav Molotov was the only person in the twentieth century to have shaken hands with Vladimir Lenin, Joseph Stalin, Winston Churchill, Franklin D.
- Joachim von RibbentropJoachim von Ribbentrop was born on the 30th of April 1893 and hanged on the 16th of October 1946, and in the years between those two dates he rose from…
- Occupation of Czechoslovakia (1938–1945)Germany's economy faced a severe crisis in 1937 as the Four-Year Plan strained foreign exchange reserves. The German government needed to import raw…
- Anti-Comintern PactOn the 25th of November 1936, in the offices of a semi-official diplomatic bureau that operated outside Germany's formal foreign ministry, two ambassadors…
- Molotov–Ribbentrop PactThe Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact was signed in Moscow on the 24th of August 1939, and within a week Germany had invaded Poland.
- Soviet occupation of the Baltic states (1940)The Soviet occupation of the Baltic states in 1940 unfolded against the backdrop of a continent already consumed by war.
- Operation BarbarossaOperation Barbarossa began at around 03:15 on Sunday, the 22nd of June 1941, when Axis artillery opened fire along a front stretching 2,900 kilometres across…
- Winter WarThe Winter War began on the 30th of November 1939, when the Soviet Union sent 21 divisions and 450,000 men across the Finnish border.
- Treaty of Brest-LitovskAt 17:50 on the 3rd of March 1918, Grigori Sokolnikov put his signature on a document that stripped Russia of 34% of its population, 54% of its industrial…