The 75th anniversary of the infamous Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, in which Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union pledged non-aggression toward each other and shortly thereafter divided Poland, passed with ...

Before the guns fired, Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union struck a shocking secret deal to divide Poland and rewrite the map of Europe. Behind closed doors in 1939, diplomacy masked a ruthless plan of ...

President Vladimir Putin is writing an article to justify the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact, which paved the way to the Second World War. Leaders generally do not attempt to excuse their countries’ ...

Stalin was 'prepared to move more than a million Soviet troops to the German border to deter Hitler's aggression just before the Second World War' Papers which were kept secret for almost 70 years ...