Re: Вторжение РФии в Украину......
On This Day in 1989, the Soviet Union admitted that in 1939 it had secretly divided Eastern Europe into spheres of influence with Nazi Germany.
Moscow acknowledged that the secret protocols of the so-called Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact did exist — after denying this for 50 years — and declared that the Stalin–Hitler deal was “legally unjustified and invalid from the moment of signing.”
However, Moscow did not accept that the consequences of the pact — the occupation and annexation of the Baltic states, and the annexation of parts of Finland, Poland, Romania, and Hungary — should be reversed.
The Soviet leadership also used a familiar argument still heard today in connection with Russia’s aggression against Ukraine:
that it was all Stalin, not the “Soviet people.”
Nonetheless, Putin has long since walked back even this limited reckoning.
Today, Moscow no longer considers the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact illegal or unjustified — quite the opposite. Putin claims the secret protocols “reflected security interests” and that the “incorporation of the Baltic states took place on a legal basis, with the consent of the elected authorities.”
In short: Stalin and Hitler tried to hide their aggressive plans. Putin’s Russia admits them openly — and defends them.
московия enabled WW2.
и начала третью...
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Originally Posted by Сиамчик
