“When it came to the [1939] Molotov-Ribbentrop pact ... Putin tried to satisfy both sides. On the one hand, it had been a 'personal decision of Stalin’, not in the interests of the Soviet people, he declared. On the other, it had been necessary as a response to the [1938] Munich agreement, hoping to sit out the war while Germany and [Russia] destroyed each other.
More detail would have been useful here.
— Sep 07, 2022 09:01AM
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