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The Ribbentrop-Molotov Pact, also known as the Stalin-Hitler Pact, was a non-aggression
treaty between the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany, signed in Moscow on 23 August 1939 by
the head of the government and the foreign minister of the URSS Vyacheslav Molotov and
German Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop, in the presence of Stalin.
On August 23, 1939, Nazi Germany and the URSS announced the signing of a non-aggression
pact. Even though Bolshevik Russia had long maintained privileged relations with 1920s
Germany, this surprised most observers, for the ideological opposition between Nazism and
Soviet communism seemed irreducible. The alliance between the two great totalitarian
dictators, Hitler and Stalin, was to have negative consequences, visible today in the united
Europe.