HIST 3250Y Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: The Unknown War (Documentary), Lviv, Red Army
22 Feb 2016
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Prelude to war: the stalin-hitler pact: the unknown war. Great patriotic war is what the soviet"s call world war ii. The molotov-ribbentrop pact (august 23, 1939) treaty of non-aggression between germany and union of soviet socialist republics, russia would not go against germany, germany wanted to ensure when they attacked poland then. Russia moved their army a month after germany moved their army into poland. Germany won most control over ukraine: a short history of soviet-german relations. Both viewed as the bad boys" of europe, the outcasts after wwi. Russia being punished for pulling out of wwi early so they were not allowed at. In 1921 the germans began talking to the soviets, first about trade and then about military cooperation. Germany was forbidden from re-army by the treaty of versailles. Germany not permitted to have more than 100,000 troops.
