70 years ago today, the two evils of the world – communist Soviet Union and nazi Germany signed a pact that made them allies, divided Europe between the two powers at the expense of other European nations, and effectively was the main reason for the World War II.

On 23rd August, 1939, Soviet Foreign Minister Vyatcheslav Molotov, and his German counterpart Joachim von Ribbentrop signed the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, the agreement of non-aggression between the two countries that both yearned for ruling the world, and in the secret protocols, which were illegal by the international law then, and are now, they divided Europe between them into “influence zones”, by which the Soviet leader Josef Stalin gave his German counterpart Adolf Hitler part of Poland, and gained the freedom for occupying Estonia, Latvia, Germany, and later also Lithuania.

The signing of the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact on 23rd August, 1939.

By the time the infamous pact was signed, nazi Germany had already occupied Austria and Czechoslovakia. Hitler was demanding Danzig, but apparently he needed Soviet approval for occupying Poland, so the two leaders had to come up with a solution that would suit the both of them.

The fact that Hitler and Stalin were allies from 23rd August, 1939 until 22nd July, 1941, is something that modern historians often forget. Some blame only Germany for starting the World War II, some only Soviet Union, and the successor of the latter – Russia – has also blamed Poland for the war, the fact that Poland didn’t voluntarily let Germany to occupy it. But the real reason for the war was the fact that Germany and Soviet Union agreed on the war and how Europe was to be divided between them.

In 1924, Joseph Goebbels, who became nazi Germany’s propaganda minister, wrote in an article in the New York Times that national socialism and communism were pretty much the same thing, only a little different. That approach were later dropped for popularity reasons, but the co-operation with Soviet Union continued, peaking with the signing of the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact. Whoever knows the two ideologies knows also that what Goebbels said in this article was the truth – communism and nazism were both ultra-left-wing ideologies, both developed from the teachings of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, and based on socialism.

So, it was a normal development of matters that in August 1939 the two ultra-left-wing regimes decided to sign a mutual non-aggression pact. Unfortunately for millions of people, they also signed an additional protocol that gave some countries to Stalin and some countries to Hitler.

The secret additional protocol Molotov and Ribbentrop signed said that the Soviet Red Army could occupy Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Eastern Poland and Eastern Romania, and nazi Germany’s army was to occupy Western Poland, Danzig and also Lithuania. German troops already were on the Polish border and on 1st September, 1939, they attacked, to which the United Kingdom reacted on 3rd September by declaring war on Germany. 1st September, 1939, was the beginning of the Second World War, accordingly the Soviet-Nazi pact.

On 17th September, 1939, Soviet Army attacked Poland from the Eastern side, trying to occupy the part of Poland that Hitler had promised to the Soviets. Poland ceased to exist and millions had lost their lives.

The two powers destroyed Poland, Soviet Union attacked Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Romanian part of Moldova, Germany attacked Denmark, Norway, Belgium, Netherlands, Luxembourg, France and Greece. Hitler broke the pact with the Soviets on 22nd June, 1941, by attacking the Soviet Union.

Finland managed to ward off the Soviets in two wars, but lost a considerable part of their land to the Soviet Union that they never got back. Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania were occupied by the Soviet Union. During the World War II, the three countries were also occupied by the nazi Germany, but in 1944 the Germans were forced to withdraw. Unfortunately the Soviets came back to those countries after the German withdrawal and re-occupied them. Bear in mind that there wasn’t a single German soldier in Estonia when the Soviets returned, and yet they, until this day call re-occupying Estonia in 1944 “liberating”, instead of occupying. When the Soviets came back in 1944, the power was in the hands of the independent Estonian Government and the nazis were long gone. How is that “liberating”?

The Soviet Union and the nazi Germany were both equally responsible for the World War II. Yet even today, nazis are being condemned, but the communists, the Soviets aren’t. Even worse – today’s Russia is trying to claim that they had nothing to do with occupying the small nations between them and Germany, and that they had nothing to do with the start with the WWII. It’s a blatant lie from Russia’s behalf and should be known to all peoples.

I would advise all the people who are interested in history, especially the part of history the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact developed, to watch the documentary by Edvins Snore called “The Soviet Story”. It’s a Latvian documentary, and very naturalistic, but it shows precisely the brutality and the similarity and co-operation of the two murderous regimes that tried to rule the world. The sad fact is, the Western powers, led by Franklin Delano Roosevelt, granted one of them the right to do so.

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