This Nazi–Soviet Pact was a marriage of strategic convenience between the two nations. The Treaty of Non-aggression between Germany and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics provided a written guarantee of non-belligerence by each country towards the other, and a declared commitment that neither government would ally itself to, or aid, an enemy of the other party.
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It also resulted in rolling series of purges in which Stalin killed or imprisoned any Soviet citizens or officials that he perceived as rivals or as potentially disloyal.ĭespite years of rhetoric against communism and the Slavic peoples of the USSR, in 1939 Hitler’s foreign minister Joachim von Ribbentrop signed a nonaggression pact with Stalin’s foreign minister Vyacheslav Molotov. Stalin’s effort to strengthen the USSR manifested itself as a series of nationwide centralized Five-Year Economic Plans from 1929 onward. Stalin was famously distrustful of the outside world and expected further foreign wars because it was in the nature of imperialism, and because just after the Soviet Union was established, fourteen nations – all capitalist, all fearing the rise of communism – had sent troops to Russia in an attempt to destabilize the new communist government. Stalin’s central tenet, “ Socialism in one country,” meant that the USSR was not focused on spreading communism internationally, but instead on strengthening it in the one country where it already existed – his own. Throughout the 1930s the communist Soviet Union underwent massive industrialization and economic growth under the leadership of dictator Joseph Stalin. What was Hitler’s plan for the East? How did this contribute to the overall brutality of the war once it came?.Why did Nazi Germany and the USSR sign a treaty of non-aggression in spite of strong hatred and distrust between the two nations?.
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