Signing the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact

[XactFilms]

10 years not 100 ._.

[gomez2905]

If Stalin and Molotov hadn't signed this pact, Soviet Union would have lost the war...

[MultiStessi]

@gomez2905 I don't think that's a logical thing to say, i'm writing a dissertation on the Nazi-Soviet pact and there are many factors for why the Triple-Entente won the war. Unless, you have an argument to prove otherwise? Russia(really) only signed the pact to buy time to mobilise it's own military. They knew Germany were going to invade and even though Germany took Russia by surprise when Germany initiated Operation Barbarossa on June 22nd 1941 they still managed to beat Germany.

[summer20105707]

@gomez2905

Debatable... The pact was desired by both the Germans and the Soviets. Germany wanted to concentrate all its strength towards crushing France and Britain. The Germans hoped to delay an invasion of Russia until they could NEUTRALIZE France and Britain. This video speculates that the Soviets trusted the Germans. I highly doubt that because the Soviets fortified their positions by attempting to invade Finland. Notice the insistance on Latvia. Both sides knew war was coming.

[summer20105707]

@gomez2905 Furthermore the Soviets must have thought that France might have given the Germans a tougher fight then they did because of the first world wars result. In other words they probably thought it was a forgone conclusion that Germany would get bogged down in France like WW1. Imagine the surprise they got when Germany occupied all of western Europe in less then one month. After all this why they still trusted the pact is a mystery beyond my reasoning.

[summer20105707]

Bottom line is they BOTH knew war had to come eventually.

[ElenaXVI]

I bet 99% of you history buffs didn't even know that Poland had a non-aggression pact with Germany since 1934 and in 1938 invaded Czechoslovakia together with the Nazis and Hungarians :P

[ElenaXVI]

@TheManabu02 Do you want to see my cotton panties?

[ElenaXVI]

@TheManabu02 Wanna have some hot hot sex in my cozy basement?

[ElenaXVI]

@TheManabu02 Haha, did you decide to get mean just like me? Have fun with yourself :)

[chihpichg]

Комментарии идииотов которые нифига не не знают! СССР великая держава, и очень жалко что он прекратил своё существование, это было государство для рабочих, а не для всяких жирных ублюдков!

[MrReco12]

Far better than the "Soviet story".

[sss7773]

Remember that the USSR armed republican Spain against Ex and Hitler and strappers of ally Hitler in Asia is Japan

Further there was in Europe a Mjunhinsky arrangement and the Hitler-Pilsudskogo pact

Also it is all to the pact Ground-ridentropa

[Diablotion]

This Stalin actor was in the "Into the storm" a film about Churchill. Btw in the treaty was all of Finland promised to the Soviet Union by Germans or just some small eastern part.

[Zappiss]

@Diablotion All of Finland was included to the Soviet sphere in the secret protocol: "In the event of a territorial and political rearrangement in the areas belonging to the Baltic States (Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania), the northern boundary of Lithuania shall represent the boundary of the spheres of influence of Germany and the U.S.S.R."

[TIC1986]

Hitler and Stalin joined together one remote day of the history, and that day the whole earth simply TREMBLED!!

[tanakarf]

did ribbentrop really offer 100 years?

[burtmurdoch]

i wish all these nvr happens!

[Hairysteed]

@TheBlindPowerslave A teacher in a polish elementary school in the 60s:

-Why do we love the Russians?

-Because they liberated us

-Good! And why do we hate the Americans?

-Because they didn't liberate us

[hugohreis]

You remember the picture of Stalin and signing the pact Ribbentropp Nazi-Communist. Nobody can forget the reciprocal laughter and obscene. If you missed someone in Nuremberg - was Stalin.

[vermut12]

The Eastern part of Poland was not really originally polish. These were territories populated by Belarus and Ukrainians (and Lwow is a Ukrainian city not Polish). These territories at various times had been a part of Russia, Poland or Austria. And in fact Poland captured them technically after the 1918 break up of the Russian empire. From the movie you get the feeling as if those territories were historically polish or something which is not absolutely correct.

[lucifersam111]

@vermut12

Heh, this ucrainian propaganda is just amazing. Poles did not capture Lwow. They have been majority there. Ukrainians in Lwow were less than 10 % of the population. Talking about Austrian rule over Galicia in the XIX century, bare in mind that the local government was throughout this time composed of polish nobility. Polish language was the official language in Lwow. The University lectures were taught in polish and german.

[Volumep]

@lucifersam111 Ucraine stole teritory from Romania and Poland...

[TheUkr2011]

@lucifersam111 Heh, to whom do you say lies? Lwow - old Russian city, Poles many times grasped it. In 1920 Poland has attacked the USSR and has again grasped Lwow.

"Ukrainians in Lwow were less than 10 % of the population. "- Yes it so, the others was killed by Poles. Poles invaders of the USSR

[tanakarf]

@vermut12 that territory was historically prussian as well

[mccarrpo]

That guy who plays Stalin, looks a lot like Stalin.

[eventriga]

And Molotov using Zippo lighter :D

[florinvancea]

@panzermiskolc, I believe it s a citroen Traction Avant it was very hitech for its time.But still they should have used german automobiles instead.