Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact
Stalin Planned to Annex Parts of Iran, Turkey and China
August 31, 2009By Paul Goble Stalin viewed the secret protocols of the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact which allowed Moscow to seize the Baltic countries, Bessarabia, and part of Poland as “a model” for the subsequent annexation of portions of Iran, Turkey and...
Moldova needlessly alienates neighbors
August 27, 2009By Louis O’Neill Moldova’s new government has some major work to do to fix the relationships with Romania and Ukraine, which deteriorated under the Communists. In his poem “Mending Wall,” poet Robert Frost concludes regretfully...
Seventy Years After the Hitler-Stalin Pact
August 27, 2009By Austin Bay "Communazi" became magazine shorthand for their collaboration, dark slang connecting the two totalitarian ideologies of the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany after they ratified the Hitler-Stalin Pact. That faux-peace agreement...
Historical Palliatives for the Phantom-Limb Syndrome
August 25, 2009By Louis O’Neill Gallons of ink have been arrayed and countless electrons rearranged with commentary over the 70th anniversary of the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact and its secret protocols. Scholars, politicians, human-rights defenders, and historians...
Defenders of Molotov-Ribbentrop Reflect Moscow’s Authoritarianism
August 25, 2009By Paul Goble Pro-Kremlin ideologists have rushed to defend the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact not so much in order to revive Stalinism in all its dimensions but rather to exploit Stalin’s ultimately failed alliance with Hitler to promote “the...
Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact And Slippery Slope Of Big Power Politics
August 23, 2009By Ahto Lobjakas On August 24, 1939, the British writer Evelyn Waugh wrote in his diary (I'm quoting from memory): "Russia and Germany have signed a cooperation pact. War now inevitable. Went for a stroll.'" Waugh here unwittingly offers...
Moldova still suffers from Nazi-Soviet Pact's pernicious results
August 22, 2009By Prof. Ernest H. Latham, Jr. Ph.D., Washington, DC Tomorrow, August 23rd, the world will give passing note and a brief mention to the fact that some seventy years ago one of the most cynical and unscrupulous treaties in all of history was signed. It...
23 August: The Night Stalin And Hitler Redrew The Map Of Europe
August 21, 2009By Robert Coalson A world slipping ever closer toward war awoke on the morning of August 24, 1939 to the shocking news that Adolf Hitler's Germany and Josef Stalin's Soviet Union had signed a nonaggression pact. Hitler was beaming when his foreign...
Molotov-Ribbentrop: Pact's Bitter Legacy Remains In Eastern Europe
August 21, 2009By Brian Whitmore Valentins Trojans remembers the marauding bands of Red Army soldiers going from farmhouse to farmhouse in his rural Latvia, looting watches, shoes, and clothing. Harijs Ruks recalls being interrogated by a sadistic Soviet officer...
When Russia's Intelligence Services Play At Politics
August 21, 2009By Aleksandr Golts Russia’s Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) has made its contribution to the president’s recently declared struggle against the falsification of history. According to Interfax, the SVR has issued a collection of documents...