The agreement stunned the world. British journalist John Gunther, in Moscow in August 1939, recalled that "Nothing more unbelievable could be imagined. Astonishment and skepticism turned quickly to consternation and alarm".[207] Before the pact’s announcement, Communists in the West denied that such a treaty would be signed. Herbert Biberman, future member of the Hollywood Ten, denounced rumors as "Fascist propaganda". Earl Browder, head of the Communist Party USA, stated that "there is as much chance of agreement as of Earl Browder being elected president of the Chamber of Commerce."[208]
>Then, on August 3, German Foreign Minister Joachim Ribbentrop outlined a plan in which Germany and the Soviet Union would agree to nonintervention in each other’s affairs and would renounce measures aimed at the other’s vital interests[89] and that "there was no problem between the Baltic and the Black Sea that could not be solved between the two of us."[90][91][92] The Germans stated that "there is one common element in the ideology of Germany, Italy and the Soviet Union: opposition to the capitalist democracies of the West",[91][93] and explained that their prior hostility toward Soviet Bolshevism had subsided with the changes in the Comintern and with the Soviet renunciation of a world revolution.[94]
crimsonbub
surprised Stalin didn’t have this photoshopped so Ribbentrop has his fingers crossed behind his back
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From Wikipedia:
The Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact,[a] officially known as the Treaty of Non-aggression between Germany and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics,[b] was a neutrality pact between Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union signed in Moscow on August 23, 1939, by foreign ministers Joachim von Ribbentrop and Vyacheslav Molotov, respectively.[8]
The agreement stunned the world. British journalist John Gunther, in Moscow in August 1939, recalled that "Nothing more unbelievable could be imagined. Astonishment and skepticism turned quickly to consternation and alarm".[207] Before the pact’s announcement, Communists in the West denied that such a treaty would be signed. Herbert Biberman, future member of the Hollywood Ten, denounced rumors as "Fascist propaganda". Earl Browder, head of the Communist Party USA, stated that "there is as much chance of agreement as of Earl Browder being elected president of the Chamber of Commerce."[208]
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>Then, on August 3, German Foreign Minister Joachim Ribbentrop outlined a plan in which Germany and the Soviet Union would agree to nonintervention in each other’s affairs and would renounce measures aimed at the other’s vital interests[89] and that "there was no problem between the Baltic and the Black Sea that could not be solved between the two of us."[90][91][92] The Germans stated that "there is one common element in the ideology of Germany, Italy and the Soviet Union: opposition to the capitalist democracies of the West",[91][93] and explained that their prior hostility toward Soviet Bolshevism had subsided with the changes in the Comintern and with the Soviet renunciation of a world revolution.[94]
crimsonbub
surprised Stalin didn’t have this photoshopped so Ribbentrop has his fingers crossed behind his back