The Red Army's attack on Poland was in line with the Soviet-German Treaty of August 23, 1939, referred to as the Ribbentrop-Molotov pact (see: NOTE) which effectively partitioned Poland between the ...

The Polish parliament adopted a resolution Wednesday condemning the Soviet invasion of Poland at the start of World War II. Moscow swiftly criticized the resolution as "worthless politics based on ...

The feature-length documentary "Hitler & Stalin 1939" is a montage film created in 1989 to mark the 50th anniversary of the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact. It draws a comparison between two of Europe’s ...

The Nazi-Soviet non-aggression pact of 1939, formally known as the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, is widely considered to be the ignominious stage-setter that allowed Nazi Germany and the USSR to invade and ...

MOSCOW (AP) — Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday strongly rejected Western criticism of a 1939 Soviet pact with Nazi Germany, arguing that Western powers, not the Soviet Union, were ...

Before the guns fired, Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union struck a shocking secret deal to divide Poland and rewrite the map of Europe. Behind closed doors in 1939, diplomacy masked a ruthless plan of ...