Never forget the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact. ''In a 1 August 1940 speech, Viacheslav M. Molotov said that the population of the Soviet Union increased by 23 million in a single year. While the annexed lands were lost to Germany for a while, they were reclaimed after World War II and, with minor readjustments, have remained part of the Soviet Union until the present''. "The events of 1939-1941 have been perceived as foreign and domestic policy successes (for the Soviet Union) by both friends and foes of the Soviet'' Source: Nationalist Propaganda in the Soviet Russian Press, 1939-1941, Ewa M. Thompson. Slavic Review, Vol. 50, No. 2 (Summer, 1991), pp. 385-399 https://files.catbox.moe/ekypcv.png https://files.catbox.moe/r4843y.png https://files.catbox.moe/fpvbps.png https://files.catbox.moe/l1sxsp.png The pact; https://files.catbox.moe/hriywc.png https://files.catbox.moe/kkndat.png https://files.catbox.moe/v6uaue.png https://files.catbox.moe/jrsdci.png German–Soviet military parade in Brest-Litovsk, 1939 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rqDtC7CXPrE&t=3s&ab_channel=AllarTui https://files.catbox.moe/azcr2w.png Hitler sends birthday greetings to Stalin in 1939; https://files.catbox.moe/zyfvys.png https://files.catbox.moe/baqqz8.jpg