83 years ago, on 23 August 1939, Joachim von Ribbentrop, Foreign Minister of the Third Reich, and Vyacheslav Molotov, People’s Commissar of Foreign Affairs of the USSR, signed the Soviet-German Non-Aggression Pact with a secret additional protocol, which resulted in the Fourth Partition of Poland.
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“On August 23, 1939, the infamous Ribbentrop-Molotov Pact was signed. Also known as the Hitler-Stalin Pact, it allowed Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union to divide Central and Eastern Europe into their spheres of influence,” the Ministry of Foreign Affairs wrote on Twitter.
On August 23, 1939, the infamous Ribbentrop-Molotov Pact was signed.
Also known as the Hitler-Stalin Pact, it allowed Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union to divide Central and Eastern Europe into their spheres of influence. pic.twitter.com/R9x2P0c5Pi
— Ministry of Foreign Affairs (@PolandMFA) August 23, 2022
The Chancellery of the Prime Minister of Poland also referred to this ‘anniversary’:
On the #BlackRibbonDay we pay tribute to the victims of totalitarian & authoritarian regimes. #OTD In 1939, the Soviet Union & Nazi Germany signed the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact containing a protocol that enabled those two powers to divide into their spheres of influence. pic.twitter.com/zwU72aRtJ9
— Chancellery of the Prime Minister of Poland (@PremierRP_en) August 23, 2022
As might be noted, today also marks the European Day of Remembrance for the Victims of Stalinism and Nazism.
“On Black Ribbon Day, we honour those who perished under the Soviet and Nazi terror. It’s our obligation so the memory of them preserves,” Poland MFA wrote.
August 23 marks the European Day of Remembrance for the Victims of Stalinism and Nazism, established on the Ribbentrop-Molotov Pact anniversary.
On #BlackRibbonDay, we honor those who perished under the Soviet and Nazi terror. It’s our obligation so the memory of them preserves. pic.twitter.com/Q3RAQIIY7a
— Ministry of Foreign Affairs (@PolandMFA) August 23, 2022