[alexander_busek]

The news agency explained that the Ribbentrop-Molotov Pact [...] was a non-aggression pact that also included the delineation of spheres of interest between the two countries in eastern Europe, and it paved the way for the German and near simultaneous Soviet invasion of Poland that triggered the beginning of the war. [...]

"In 1939, despite sharp ideological differences, the two powers entered into a non-aggression pact that paved the way for them to carve up Poland and for the Soviet Union to take the Baltic states of Lithuania, Estonia and Latvia," AP wrote. "That pact was never formally recognized as an alliance [...]

Okay, then call it what it was: A deal with the Devil - or rather, a deal between two devils.

Regards,

[granada]

In 1934, Poland became the first country that signed the non-aggression pact with Hitler’s Nazi Germany.

[Verginius Rufus]

In 1914 the German invasion of France failed because the Germans had to fight the Russians at the same time. The Hitler-Stalin Pact made it possible for the Germans in 1940 to defeat France, occupy as much of France as they chose, and also to conquer the Low Countries, Denmark, and Norway, The only country still resisting Hitler was Great Britain and but for the performance of the Royal Air Force in the Battle of Britain, England might have been invaded too.