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- Stalin signs non-aggression pact with Hitler in 1939
- Agreed not to fight each other
- Agreed to divide Poland
- Began to trade raw material for war material
- Also called Molotov Ribbentrop pact
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Stalin finds that he has a large benefit from signing with Germany. Does so to gain materials.
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"To the chancellor of the German Reich, Herr A. Hitler.I thank you for your letter. I hope that the German-Soviet Nonaggression Pact will mark a decisive turn for the better in the political relations between our two countries." -Joseph Stalin
Subjunctive Question
What would the outcome of WWII be if these two had kept with the pact that they made?