Less than a month before Hitler invaded Poland on September 1, 1939 and started World War II, he signed a non-aggression pact with Stalin. Less than two years later, he broke the pact and invaded the Soviet Union in the early morning hours of June 22, 1941. There were plenty of evidence for German aggression before the war broke out, yet Stalin nevertheless signed the pact which contained the secret protocol that divided Poland between Germany and the Soviet …showed first 75 words of 1264 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1264 total…massive repercussion in all sectors of the society and greatly endangered Soviet Union's sovereignty and viability. BIBLIOGRAPHY Stalinist Terror: New Perspectives, edited by J. Arch Getty and Roberta T. Manning, Cambridge University Press, 1993 William R. Keylor, The Twentieth Century World: An International History, Oxford University Press, New York, 1996 Martin McCauley, The Soviet Union Since 1917, Longman Group Limited, New York, 1981 Revelations from the Russian Archives, Library of Congress, 1996 http://lcweb.loc.gov/exhibits/archives/intro.html