Özet:

Germany and the Soviet Union surprised the whole world by signing a non-aggression pact a week before the start of World War II because no one anticipated that Germany and the Soviet Union differing in ideology and seeing each other as enemies would come shoulder to shoulder in such a period when Germany maintained her revisionist policies at full tilt. However, the attitudes of large states and political events occurring in Europe pushed the two countries to form an alliance. Germany did not want to fight against the Soviet Union in the early years of the Great War that she would start, but she was thinking of attacking the Soviet Union after she would eliminate European states. Moreover, the Soviet Union would be able to provide Germany with the raw material that she would seriously need in the early years of the war. Such a war also did not suit the books of the Soviet Union. As of 1939, the Soviet Union was not ready for a war with Germany. It would take one to two years for the Soviets to restock and become ready for the Great War. With this pact, Soviet Russia would able to conquer, without a fight and tear, the eastern part of Poland which Soviet Russia intended to seize for a long time, the Baltic region in which Germany was not interested, and some parts of Eastern Europe.

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