US EditionEstonia in the Grip of the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact and the Realpolitik of Great Powers
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"It's simply impossible to imagine a more unfavorable geographical situation than that of the new Poland," wrote Aleksander Skrzyński in 1923. Cooperation between Germany and Russia has never been beneficial for Poland. One of the most striking examples of this is the signing of the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact on August 23, 1939.
Estonia in the grip of the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact and the realpolitik of great powers
On 23 August 1939, Nazi Germany’s foreign minister Joachim von Ribbentrop and his Soviet counterpart, Vyacheslav Molotov, signed a non-aggression treaty – the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact – along with secret protocols carving up Eastern Europe between the two totalitarian powers. Meelis Maripuu reflects on a deal whose consequences haunted Estonia until 1991.* In the second half of the 1930s, two totalitarian regimes emerged as new key figures on the…
The Nazi-Soviet pact resonates today in the Russian invasion of Ukraine and Trump's ambiguity vis-à-vis Putin and NATO.
This treaty between Hitler's Germany and Stalin's Soviet Union not only allowed the two totalitarian regimes to divide spheres of influence, but also demonstrated how diplomatic “pacifications” of the aggressor could lead to disastrous consequences. Today, in the context of the Russian-Ukrainian war, similar ideas are heard again: proposals for a diplomatic settlement, which involve the division of Ukraine, where part of the territories is given…
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