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1939 neutrality pact between Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union

"German–Soviet pact" redirects here. For the Weimar-era German–Soviet non-aggression pact, see Treaty of Berlin (1926).

The Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact, officially the Treaty of Non-Aggression between Germany and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics,^[1][2] and also known as the Hitler–Stalin Pact^[3][4] and the Nazi–Soviet Pact,^[5] was a non-aggression pact between Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union, with a secret protocol establishing Soviet and German spheres of influence across Eastern Europe.^[6] The pact was signed in Moscow on 24 August 1939 (backdated 23 August 1939) by Soviet Foreign Minister Vyacheslav Molotov and German Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop.^[7]

The treaty was the culmination of negotiations around the 1938–1939 deal discussions, after tripartite discussions with the Soviet Union, the United