• Cowbee [he/they]@lemmy.ml
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    16 days ago

    Yes, this was not an agreement to invade jointly, the USSR entered Poland 17 days after the Nazis did. This was the Soviet Union providing a “no-go” line for the Nazis in the event of Nazi invasion, largely including areas Poland had invaded and annexed from Lithuania and Ukraine a couple decades prior.

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      16 days ago

      This was them dividing the country between them for when the war was concluded. Unless we pretend we don’t know what this means

      In the event of a territorial and political rearrangement of the areas belonging to the Polish state,

      • Cowbee [he/they]@lemmy.ml
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        Neither country expected the treaty to last, and the areas in Poland were largely areas annexed from Ukraine and Lithuania beforehand. Is your point that the Soviets expected the Nazis to stay non-hostile until the end of World War II or even beyond it? Not only would that have been stupid, we have evidence to the contrary, that neither country expected the treaty to last.