The Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact, (also
known as the Nazi–Soviet Pact), named after the Soviet Foreign
Minister Vyacheslav Molotov and the German Foreign
Minister Joachim von
Ribbentrop, officially the Treaty of Non-aggression between Germany and the Union of
Soviet Socialist Republics, was a non-aggression pact signed between Nazi Germany and the Soviet
Union in Moscow on 23 August 1939.
The stated clauses of the Nazi-Soviet
non-aggression pact were a guarantee of non-belligerence by each party towards
the other, and a written commitment that neither party would ally itself to, or
aid, an enemy of the other party. In addition to stipulations of non-aggression,
the treaty included a secret protocol that divided territories of Romania, Poland, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, and Finland into German and Soviet "spheres of influence", anticipating potential "territorial
and political rearrangements" of these countries.
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