A very Soviet history: from the #HitlerStalinPact 1939 to the Nazi accusations against President #Zelensky today. Join this conference online, Oct. 6/7 :

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##WW2 #Germany #HitlerStalinPact #InvasionOfPoland #Fascism #Putin

Black Ribbon Day 2025: The Hitler-Stalin Pact that started WW2 which Putin wants to erase. "The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting." - Milan Kundera

Black Ribbon Day 2025: The Hitler-Stalin Pact that started WW2 which Putin wants to erase. open.substack.com/pub/notesfro... #NeverForget #MolotovRibbentropPact #HitlerStalin #HitlerStalinPact #NaziGermany #SovietRussia #WW2 #WWII

Strange bedfellows, Trump and Bukele.

Should we worry? Nah. All is well.

"President Trump also praised President Bukele’s leadership in the region and the example he sets for other nations in the Western Hemisphere."

#HitlerStalinPact

This #TrumpPutinPact feels like a #HitlerStalinPact 2.0. And we all know, how that ended. #Trump #Putin #PutinsWar #Ukraine

Is the Trump-Putin pact coming now? And will the division of Europe into a Russian and a US sphere of interest be regulated in a secret additional protocol or only verbally?

#TrumpPutinPact #HitlerStalinPact
#Trump
#Putin
#Ukraine
#Groenlandia
#ImperialTerror
#NATO
#EU

OTD #HitlerStalinPact James Aldridge - "Seeking experience in other parts of the world, he was in Helsinki when Russia invaded Finland, and quickly made the most of his
opportunity. "His colorful despatches of that campaign, in which he led all others, ..earned him world renown,"
December 17, 1940

OTD #HitlerStalinPact
"Premier of the former Soviet puppet government in #Finland, Otto Kuusinen, has been appointed Stalin's personal adviser on Baltic affairs."
His appointment is believed to foreshadow moves to incorporate the whole of Finland into the USSR.
Sunday Times (Perth) Dec 15, 1940

OTD #HitlerStalinPact
"Russo-German Frontier [in #Poland] Defined"
"Both Governments had approved of the commission's decision in a spirit of friendly collaboration, conforming with the friendly relations between Russia and Germany." [Tass]
Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate Dec 14, 1940

OTD #HitlerStalinPact
"Nowadays, it was quite legal for the [Soviet] Government to turn a family out of its home [in #Estonia] to make room for the Russians. Naturally, as rooms to let became fewer and fewer, rents rose correspondingy."
The Telegraph (Brisbane) December 14, 1940

OTD #HitlerStalinPact Russians, are systematically exterminating an entire class of people in the part of #Poland they occupy.Letters smuggled out of Kasakstan, one of the most forlorn areas on earth, reveal that countless families under conditions worse than death itself.
December 11, 1940

OTD #HitlerStalinPact
"He had smuggled hundreds of
pounds in notes, in the rubber peak of his Russian cap, and in the lid of a cabin trunk."I could see I was certain to be pushed out of the country [ #Estonia], so I hoarded up all the money I could after war broke out.
December 10, 1940

OTD #HitlerStalinPact
"The Russians have long memories, and, if we talk, they will take revenge
on people we know who are within their power," said one of them. Of 167 evacuees from Lithuania,
Latvia and #Estonia, only 23 have come on to Sydney."
The Sun (Sydney) Dec 9, 1940

OTD #HitlerStalinPact
"..months ago Russia informed Estonia that, for her own protection, Russia must erect fortifications at vulnerable points of their country.
.. an ultimatum from the Big Bear to little Estonia that she must hand over her independence .. or take a thrashing."
November 6, 1940

OTD #HitlerStalinPact
"Soviet ...stating that there could be no pact of any kind with Britain until she agreed to recognise the Soviet conquest of Lithuania, #Estonia and Latvia, and to hand over the assets in London of those countries amounting to about £4,000,000.
December 5, 1940

OTD #HitlerStalinPact
"when #Estonia was first taken over, she said one of the first acts performed by Soviet officials was to take over the Press, nothing being published that was not Soviet propaganda. ..."
Warwick Daily News, December 4, 1940

#HitlerStalinPact "When the Russians moved in crowding took place in the towns and many families had to share one flat, and conditions became almost unbearable.
#Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania lost their ample supplies of food, and on occasions the people had to go without."
The Telegraph Dec 3, 1940

OTD #HitlerStalinPact
"Aid for Greece"
"I could still pass for forty," and asks to enlist in the Greek Army. In New Brunswick, N.J., a group of young aviators who flew for #Finland now want to fly for Greece".

The Waterbury Democrat, December 2, 1940
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OTD #HitlerStalinPact
"Soviet break up diplomatical connection with Finland"
"Germany now supports Russia"
"Half a million Finns are ready for defense -Prepared for everything"
Nidaros, torsdag 30. november 1939, Norway
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OTD #HitlerStalinPact "At 3:10 p. m. a powerful explosion shook the city. Then others followed in quick succession. The city seemed to tremble and the sirens
shrieked again. Back came the Russian planes, diving through theclouds. They dumped their bombs in
the center of the town.

OTD #HitlerStalinPact
"Finland's Task Today - Huge Reconstruction Problem [after Soviet invasion]- It was reported that Russia, in cooperation with Germany was bringing pressure to bear to obtain control of the Finnish nickel mines.
Ouyen Mail, November 27, 1940

OTD #HitlerStalinPact
"Poland Still Very Much in Fight [against Germany]
-The Polish armed forces' ambition was to get back to Poland, where there was another unknown and invisible army, — the Polish people, who would
speak and act when the time came."
The Evening News November 25, 1940

#HitlerStalinPact
"Nazis Getting U.S. Oil Supplied by Russia" - "There is a possibility that as much as 50 percent of the petrol which Russia is at present sending to Germany is being supplied by the United States"

Saturday Evening Express, November 23, 1940

OTD #HitlerStalinPact

"What is the essential difference between Polish freedom and, for instance, Estonian freedom ? And what is the essential difference between Stalin's agents— who are also Hitler's henchmen—in France and Stalin's agents in Britain?"

Southern Cross November 22, 1940

OTD #HitlerStalinPact “After the Soviet annexation
Estonia was looted just as the Nazis looted Norway, Belgium and Holland. Butter, cheese, vegetables and eggs were nearly all sent to Russia. It has been the same, with other Baltic States.”
The Sun News-Pictorial, Nov 20, 1940, Aus

OTD #HitlerStalinPact
"British From Estonia [now soviet] Arrive At Hongkong -Many of the evacuees left Estonia so hurriedly they could not take their belongings. A radio appeal has been made in Hongkong for clothing and
gifts for them. Baltic States were absorbed by the
Soviet"
November 19, 1940

OTD #HitlerStalinPact "while[Molotov's] farewell party was being held,British bombers shown the accuracy of their power by hitting the Berlin east railway station from which the Molotov special train should have started.
This British gesture of farewell"
The Tacoma times,Nov 18 1940

OTD #HitlerStalinPact
"It Is only 15 months, ... , since Germany and Russia announced to a startled world the conclusion of a commercial treaty of which the implications were far more important than the actual terms"
Evening star.Nov 17, 1940 chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83045...

OTD #HitlerStalinPact
"Berlin Bombed - Molotov [Soviet] Experiences R.A.F. [British] Raid - Germans officials described the raid as a deliberate attempt to disturb the banquet [with #Molotov, Himmler, Ley, Ribbentrop].
1940, November 16

OTD #HitlerStalinPact "Full understanding [Molotov visit] in Berlin. Cooperation between the two powers [Nazi-Soviets] is strengthened and should be developed further."
Nationen, fredag 15. november 1940, Norway
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