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Spanish press: Despite the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, England and France did not declare war on the USSR

Spanish press: Despite the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, England and France did not declare war on the USSR
AT 1939-1941 years the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany were allegedly allies. And the discord between them occurred after “Stalin's accession to the USSR of Romanian Bukovina and the threat of seizing oil wells in Ploiesti, which were of strategic importance for the Hitlerite army”.

This opinion was expressed by Serhi Vich in his article, published in the Spanish newspaper La Vanguardia.

He's writing, that Britain and France on the eve of World War II understood, that the outcome of the upcoming conflict primarily depends on, how the Soviet Union will behave. They hoped, that the USSR will oppose the Nazis, since there was a deep ideological abyss between Moscow and Berlin. After all, under the "Anti-Comintern Pact", uniting Germany, Italy and Japan, there was a personal signature of the leader of the Third Reich.

Spanish press claims, that London and Paris underestimated Moscow and Berlin, who stepped over their own principles and were able to agree among themselves, by signing an agreement, later called the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact.

It was concluded 23 August 1939 of the year, a week before the start of World War II. The secret protocol attached to the treaty provided for the division of Eastern Europe into spheres of influence between the USSR and Germany..

Upon learning about this agreement, in France and Britain were shocked, as the Spanish author writes. London and Paris stopped negotiations with Moscow, and in Warsaw, already foreseeing the disaster, prepared for an attack from the west and east.

The author of the material in the Spanish press does not write, why weren't they shocked in Paris and London, when their authorities signed their pacts with the Nazis – in particular, speech about the Munich agreement…

Since the conclusion of the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, writes Vich, German newspapers stopped criticizing the USSR, and the Kremlin called on foreign parties, members of the Comintern, stop criticizing the Nazis.

In London and Paris, learning about the contract, perceived it as a military alliance between Germany and the Soviet Union. But despite the Molotov pact- Ribbentrop England and France did not declare war on the USSR. Looks like, Spanish author is surprised by this fact.

But Berlin's good relations with Moscow did not last long, then there was discord. Its cause, according to Wich, Stalin's excessive appetites became. Instead of, to take only Bessarabia from Romania, as agreed, he "captured and Bukovina", from where to oil fields, vital to the Wehrmacht, it was a stone's throw. true, the author is "modestly" silent, that the Nazis did not follow the treaty very closely, secretly helping in Finland's Winter War, which under the contract was part of the Soviet sphere of influence.

Howbeit, a 22 June 1941 years Nazi Germany invaded the Soviet Union, and the Red Army became the main enemy of the Nazis in World War II, eventually forcing them to capitulate in May 1945 of the year.

It is worth noting, that the article in the Spanish press is clearly aimed at, to try to equate the USSR and Hitler's Germany. And this is done in order to belittle the role of the Soviet Union in the defeat of Nazism..

Author:Sergey Kuzmitsky
used photos:https://ru.wikipedia.org/fund CGAKFD

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