New documents show how the Soviet Union tried to stop WWII
23. 05. 2017 - 11:25 Many European countries frequently chastise modern Russia for the so-called Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact signed between Moscow and Berlin on 23 August of 1939. However, according to recently opened Russian archives, the USSR offered a mutual-pact against Nazi Germany to France and Britain, before giving up on disinterested western leaders and deciding to attempt to avoid war with Germany by singing an agreement with the regime in Berlin. gazeta.kg »