Molotov-ribbentrop Treaty by Tanvir Amjad

The direct consequences of this Molotov-Ribbentrop pact was the German invasion and subsequent occupation of western Poland.After two weeks following that was the Soviet invasion and occupation of eastern Poland.This treaty was the blue print for a future German invasion of Soviet Union and creation of the Axis power.Previously the Anti-Comintern Pact of 1936 also shipped the German focus from China to the imperial Japan.Mussolini on the other hand was at the corner of all these as a megalomaniac to shake hands on a deal that ultimately cause great shame and suffering for the reluctant Italians who was parted with the Nazis but was always unsure where they stand for.Stalin was very calculative while negotiating with the Germans on the road map of Molotov-Ribbentrop treaty.Stalin knew by signing this treaty he will gain more land without helping Germans on a wide scale war.Because of earlier Polish-Russian war Stalin had a grudge over Polish veterans and political structures.As a direct effect of that he ordered the elimination of some 21,000 Polish officers by the proposal of secret police force (The NKVD) chief Beria.Their families was sent to exile in remote parts of Soviet Union only to die in starvation,torture or disease.Not to mention the creation of Auschwitz in western Poland by the Germans than killed nearly 1.1 million Jews,also Gypsies and Polish political prisoners.On the 70th anniversary of the infamous treaty the world joined to say “Never Again”.