https://tankie.tube/videos/watch/70455010-9d02-48f6-950e-e1696879ffc2 Thanks to Keeps for sponsoring this video! Head to http://keeps.com/hakim to get a special offer. Individual results may vary. Support me on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/ComradeHakim Twitter: @YaBoiHakim 00:00 Introduction 00:44 Addendum: Don't be stupid 01:22 Context and Background Info 04:45 The MR Pact, Collective Security and Antisemitism 10:00 Why? The Soviet Sphere of Influence and Occupation 16:42 Conclusion and Another Addendum Sources: Belgium Contributor, et al. “Locarno Treaties: Treaty between Germany, Belgium, France, Great Britain and Italy.” Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/2021667899/. Accessed 11 March 2024. Britannica. “Weimar Republic - Stabilization, Democracy, Hyperinflation.” Britannica, https://www.britannica.com/place/Weimar-Republic/Toward-stabilization. Accessed 11 March 2024. Collier, Martin, and Philip Pedley. Germany 1919-45. Pearson Education, 2000. Accessed 21 March 2024. Gross, Jan T. Revolution from abroad: the Soviet conquest of Poland's western Ukraine and western Belorussia. Princeton University Press, 2002. Holdsworth, Nick, et al. “Stalin 'planned to send a million troops to stop Hitler if Britain and France agreed pact.'” The Telegraph, 18 October 2008, https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/russia/3223834/Stalin-planned-to-send-a-million-troops-to-stop-Hitler-if-Britain-and-France-agreed-pact.html. Accessed 13 March 2024. Szymanski, Albert. Class Struggle in Socialist Poland: With Comparisons to Yugoslavia. Praeger, 1984. Accessed 21 March 2024. TIME, Inc. “THE U.S.S.R. LIFE PRESENTS A SPECIAL ISSUE PORTRAYING THE WORKS AND MANNERS OF THE RUSSIAN PEOPLE.” TIME, 29 March 1943, p. 118, https://ia801400.us.archive.org/0/items/life-ussr/Life_1943-03-29_v14-13.pdf. Accessed 13 March 2024. Tsygankov, Andrei P. Russia and the West from Alexander to Putin: Honor in International Relations. Cambridge University Press, 2012. Accessed 11 March 2024. Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, and German Reich. Treaty of Non-Aggression between Germany and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. 23 August 1939. European Network Remembrance and Solidarity, https://enrs.eu/uploads/media/The%20Molotov-Ribbentrop%20Pact_en%20text.pdf. Wed, 08 Apr 2026 23:50:53 GMT https://validator.w3.org/feed/docs/rss2.html PeerTube - https://tankie.tube https://tankie.tube/lazy-static/avatars/3ba3ff73-a8b6-49c9-add8-9653ef090c7f.webp https://tankie.tube/videos/watch/70455010-9d02-48f6-950e-e1696879ffc2 All rights reserved, unless otherwise specified in the terms specified at https://tankie.tube/about and potential licenses granted by each content's rightholder.