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History Lessons: How Stalin and Hitler Split a Country in Two
Niether country trusted each other. But they also wanted to give themselves time to attend to other matters (and build up militarily).
Here s What You Need To Know: The tragedy of Poland goes beyond the Hitler-Stalin Pact and the insidious agenda of aggression it has come to represent. It assured that by 1945, in the throes of Allied victory, Poland would merely exchange one overseer for another.
On August 23, 1939, Soviet Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs, V.P. Potemkin, waited at the Moscow Airport for Joachim von Ribbentrop, Foreign Minister of Nazi Germany. He warmly greeted the former champagne salesman and then whisked him away for a clandestine meeting at the Kremlin.
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The plan is outlined in historian Giles Milton s new book Checkmate in Berlin. Pictured: Churchill with Stalin (right) and US President Roosevelt at the Yalta conference in February 1945.