September 28, 1939 the Soviet Union and Germany finally divided their spheres of influence in Eastern Europe. “Times” says the redistribution of boundaries and events accompanied it.
Seventy-five years ago, when Poland was already occupied by Germany and the Soviet Union, the People’s Commissar for Foreign Affairs Vyacheslav Molotov and German foreign minister Joachim von Ribbentrop signed a new contract, which became a kind of supplement to the judgment at the end of August of the same 1939 pact. Negotiations continued for three days in Moscow and was initiated at the request of the Soviet side. The formal reason for their beginning was the occupation of Poland and its further processing. At the same time, continued the liberation campaign of the Red Army on the Western Ukraine and Western Belorussia.
However, the real reason for conducting new negotiations was the Soviet proposal to refuse any and all claims from Germany to Lithuania. In response, the Soviet Union was ready to abandon Warsaw and Lublin provinces engaged shortly before.
Some states, such as Estonia, have themselves realized the hopelessness of the situation. So, the official Tallinn 28 September 1939 agreed to place in the country of Soviet military bases.
«Poland was a great power. Where is Poland? “- Said Joseph Stalin, Minister for Foreign Affairs of Estonia Karl Selter, the parties have agreed on a mutual assistance pact, which, in addition to the deployment of Soviet military bases, meant providing the Estonian Army” concessional assistance weapons and other military materials ».
September 28 were successfully completed and the Soviet-German negotiations, and in the newspapers published the text of the relevant treaty. Attached is a map for.
However, the parties also entered into a confidence and two secret protocol.
Trust protocol meant that Germany would not interfere with the resettlement of “persons of Ukrainian or Belarusian origin” from the scope of its interests in the Soviet sphere of interest. In turn, the Soviet Union promised not to interfere with the resettlement of “persons of German origin” to move to Germany or to the scope of its interests. By areas of interest of the two countries at the same time understood the border that was outlined on the new map.
The first secret protocol concerning the prohibition on all sorts of agitation controlled by the Soviet Union and Germany in Poland if it is directed against one of the parties to the agreement.
Before leaving Moscow, the German Foreign Minister Ribbentrop did employee TASS following statement: “My stay and Moscow was again short, unfortunately, all too brief. Next time I hope to stay here anymore ».
In the second secret protocol said just about the division of spheres of influence: « As soon as the Government of the USSR to take Lithuanian territory special measures for the protection of their interests, for the purpose of simple and natural boundaries of the present German-Lithuanian border is corrected so that the Lithuanian territory, which lies to the southwest of the line marked on the map, goes to Germany ».
Thus, the section of Eastern Europe was actually completed. Before the Great Patriotic War was little more than two years. And to create the Estonian, Latvian and Lithuanian SSR, and even less.
But the joint statement of the Soviet and German governments condemned all other countries – the future allies of the USSR in World War II: «Government mutual consent expressed opinion that the elimination of the present war between Germany on the one hand, and Britain and France on the other hand would meet the interests of all peoples. Therefore, both the Government will direct their common efforts, in case of need, in agreement with other friendly powers, as soon as possible to achieve this goal. If, however, these efforts of the two Governments remain fruitless, so it will be set the fact that England and France are responsible for the continuation of the war, and in the case of continuing the war the Government of Germany and the Soviet Union will consult with each other on the necessary measures ».
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