How did Soviet People React to the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact? - KGB Files

The Non-Aggression Pact was signed by Germany and the Soviet Union on August 23, 1939. The document went down in history as the #Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact - after the foreign ministers of the two countries who signed it. The regimes of #Stalin and #Hitler, until recently openly hostile, now pledged not to oppose each other directly or indirectly. How did the inhabitants of the Soviet Union react to the fact that suddenly they got new friends who are Nazis? Declassified documents of the Soviet secret police, the #NKVD, which reported to the party leaders on the mood of society, will help us with this. 01:19 “The leaders of the communists will adopt the program of fascism“ 03:56 “An act of the greatest wisdom and foresight of our government“ 06:15 “There is also a secret agreement“ 07:59 “What a cunning Hitler“ 09:21 September 1, 1939 10:10 “Victory is ours. ... We will be in Berlin“ 11:52 “The annexation of Poland was being prepared for a long time“ 13:59 The fate of the Consul General Jerzy Matusiński Suppo