• RaivoKulli@sopuli.xyz
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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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      16 days ago

      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.