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Гитлер Адольф Алоизиевич через Молотова Вячеслава Михсйловича получает от Сталина Иосифа Виссарионовича указания о том, когда и как завоёвывать соседние страны.

Год примерно 1939й - 1940й.

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https://www.marketwatch.com/story/putin-defends-molotov-ribbentrop-pact-says-it-was-the-west-not-russia-that-appeased-hitler-2019-12-20

Putin defends Molotov-Ribbentrop pact, says it was the West, not Russia, that appeased Hitler

Published: Dec. 20, 2019 at 1:56 p.m. ET

By Associated Press

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 responsible for trying to appease the Nazis.

World War II still evokes painful memories in Russia, which lost an estimated 27 million in the war. The Kremlin is anxious to see the nation’s sacrifices and its role in defeating the Nazis duly recognized as the nation prepares to mark the 75th anniversary of the victory next May.

Putin, speaking during Friday’s meeting with the leaders of other ex-Soviet countries in St. Petersburg, strongly criticized a recent resolution of the European parliament, which blamed the 1939 Soviet-Nazi pact for the outbreak of World War II.

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Two weeks after Germany invaded Poland on Sept. 1, 1939, the Soviet Union invaded Poland from the east, with Adolf Hitler and Soviet dictator Josef Stalin carving up Poland and the Baltic states based on a secret protocol in the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact signed on Aug. 23, 1939.

Putin argued that the 1939 pact followed numerous agreements that Britain, France and Poland signed with the Nazis in a bid to appease Hitler. He insisted that those deals, including the 1938 Munich pact that allowed Hitler to annex Czechoslovakia, encouraged the Nazis and paved way to World War II.

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