[wagglebee]

Russia is still upset that their control of Eastern Europe collapsed.

[Land_of_Lincoln_John]

This wasn't just a border realignment. Thousands of Latvians, Estonians and Lithuantians were killed, or shipped in boxcars to Siberia.

[Land_of_Lincoln_John]

Pre 1991, the Soviet line was that the Baltic States joined the Soviet Union at their own request. This was taught in the schools there.

[William of Orange]

I think the Hitler-Stalin pact was one-sidedly cancelled by Hitler on june 22nd 1941, I don't see the problem here.

[Arkinsaw]

Surely that deal, conducted between two mass murdering dictators, has no legal standing in the modern day.

[Malesherbes]

The first victim was Poland which lost 6 million (20 percent) of its citizens (half of them Jews; half of them Christians) to the Nazis, and then thousands more to the Communists. Stalin had a personal grudge against the Poles because of their defeat of the Red Army in 1920 - in which his own stupidity had played a part.

[festus]

Frankly GW should sign a similar such agreement with em and carve up the middle east.

[JFK_Lib]

So what would be the practical effect, if any, if the Russians did renounce the PAct?

Something seems implied other than mere symbology.

Does anyone actually *know* whatthe practical effect would be?

[Semper Paratus]

Hitler already renounced it June 22, 1941 upon the invasion of Eastern Poland and the Soviet Union.

[Calpernia]

The rally that is mentioned in this article:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1214723/posts
"Sex Lead Me To Communism"

Was the celebration of this Hitler-Stalin Deal.

[Calpernia]

I had missed this post.

Of interest.

[Petronski]

I had to read this twice. Good grief, that's sad and funny and sad all over again.

[nickcarraway]

The Nazi-Soviet pact led communists in the U.S. to switch from being anti-Nazi, to attacking FDR for warmongering.