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There were three distinct phases in Soviet foreign policy between the conclusion of the Russian Civil War and the Nazi-Soviet Pact in 1939, determined in part by political struggles within the USSR, and in part by dynamic developments in international relations and the effect these had on Soviet security.
Rudolf von Scheliha, the First Secretary at the German embassy in Warsaw, had been working as a Soviet spy since 1937 and kept the Kremlin well informed about the state of German-Polish relations, and it was intelligence provided by him that let the Soviets know that Hitler was seriously considering invading Poland from March 1939 onward and ...
On 23 August 1939, the Soviet Union signed a non-aggression pact with Germany which included a secret protocol that divided Eastern Europe into German and Soviet spheres of influence, anticipating potential "territorial and political rearrangements" of these countries. [2] Germany invaded Poland on 1 September 1939, starting World War II.
The Soviet invasion of Poland was a military conflict by the Soviet Union without a formal declaration of war. On 17 September 1939, the Soviet ... relations with ...
The economic agreement was the first step toward improvement in relations between the Soviet Union and Germany. On 11 May 1939, the day after the Credit Agreement, the Soviet Union went to war against Japan in a successful four-week military campaign in the Far East. [3] The Nazi-Soviet Pact was signed four days after the Credit Agreement.
The Winter War [F 6] was a war between the Soviet Union and Finland.It began with a Soviet invasion of Finland on 30 November 1939, three months after the outbreak of World War II, and ended three and a half months later with the Moscow Peace Treaty on 13 March 1940.
October 2 — Yuri Glazkov, Soviet Air Force officer and cosmonaut (d. 2008) October 5 — Vladimir Rusalov, Russian psychologist and anthropologist (d. 2023) October 8 — Elvīra Ozolina, javelin thrower; October 12 — Yuri Vasilyev, Soviet and Russian stage and film actor (d. 1999) October 18 — Ivan Shabanov, 4th Governor of Voronezh Oblast
Soviet neutrality between 1939 and 1941 helped Germany to avoid a two front war. In 1941 Germany concentrated most of the Wehrmacht eastward in 1941, while continuing Soviet imports to Germany would prove vital to the German invasion of the Soviet Union. [ 195 ]