Seventy-five years ago this past weekend, Vyacheslav Molotov left Berlin without the second Molotov-Ribbentrop treaty Moscow and Berlin had sought (and that would have contained a second set of “secret protocols”) because Hitler refused to agree to the Soviet annexation of Finland and Moscow’s expansion into the Balkans and Turkey. That made war between the...
Stalin’s expansionist designs blocked signing of second Molotov-Ribbentrop treaty
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