German–Soviet Axis talks occurred in October and November 1940, nominally concerning the Soviet Union's potential adherent as a fourth Axis power during...

non-aggression pact between Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union, with a secret protocol establishing Soviet and German spheres of influence across Eastern...

Axis powers Foreign relations of the Axis powers German-Soviet Axis talks Greater Germanic Reich Hakkō ichiu Hetalia: Axis Powers Hypothetical Axis victory...

World War II Germany–Soviet Union relations before 1941 German–Soviet Axis talks Eastern Front (World War II) Soviet invasion of Poland Soviet–Polish Non-Aggression...

point had decided that he wanted to attack the Soviet Union. The German–Soviet Axis talks led nowhere. As World War II continued, Ribbentrop's once-friendly...

collaboration, the German-Soviet military parade, the German–Soviet Axis talks, the NKVD prisoner massacres, forced population transfer in the Soviet Union, and...

Bohemia annexed to Nazi Germany while Hungary, Romania and Bulgaria are puppet states. Finland stays independent) German–Soviet Axis talks (considered plans...

Europe into German and Soviet spheres of influence, anticipating potential "territorial and political rearrangements" of these countries. Germany invaded...

war, the Soviets scrapped the pact and joined the Allied campaign against Japan. After the Fall of France and then the expansion of the Axis Powers, the...

The Winter War 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...

resources in an attempt to encourage higher productivity. As the Axis armies pushed into Soviet territory from June 1941 on, labor resources became further...

the German invasion of western Poland, followed by co-ordination with German forces in Poland. During the Occupation of East Poland by the Soviet Union...

manufacturing machinery to the Soviet Union. After unresolved negotiations regarding a potential Soviet entry into the Axis Pact, the two governments settled...

Republic by Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union. This division is sometimes called the Fourth Partition of Poland. The Soviet (as well as German) invasion of...

From 1930 to 1952, the government of the Soviet Union, on the orders of Soviet leader Joseph Stalin and under the direction of the NKVD official Lavrentiy...

to annex East Karelia. On 22 June 1941, the Axis invaded the Soviet Union. Three days later, the Soviet Union conducted an air raid on Finnish cities...

The Soviet Union introduced forced collectivization (Russian: Коллективизация) of its agricultural sector between 1928 and 1940 during the ascension of...

as the Great Patriotic War in the Soviet Union and its successor states, and the German–Soviet War in modern Germany and Ukraine, was a theatre of World...

signed the Tripartite Pact with the Axis powers. The agreement was reached after months of negotiations between Germany and Yugoslavia and was signed at...

of the Axis Powers: family members of persons accused of loyalty to the Axis administration and of persons who continued resistance to Soviet power, which...

with the thousands of German communists that were handed over from Stalin to the Gestapo after the signing of the German-Soviet Pact. Rogovin also noted...

the Soviet Union. Visual censorship was exploited in a political context, particularly during the political purges of Joseph Stalin, where the Soviet government...

were part of the German Heim ins Reich policy in accordance with the German–Soviet Frontier Treaty between Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union. As a result...

studies weeks before Nazi Germany invaded the Soviet Union in 1941. Sent to the front, he was captured and imprisoned by the Germans and died at the Sachsenhausen...

restore order. On 28 September, Germany and the Soviet Union exchanged some of their conquered territories, and a German–Soviet Frontier Treaty was signed...

Strait of Otranto was fought, resulting in Allied victory. German–Soviet Axis talks: Soviet Foreign Minister Vyacheslav Molotov met with Adolf Hitler and...

against the German onslaught. Soviet POWs in German prison camps were treated poorly, leading to only 1/10 of Red Army POWs surviving German camps. In contrast...

Joseph Stalin, the General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1922 to 1952 and Chairman of the Council of Ministers from 1941 until...

at which the leaders of the United States, the United Kingdom, and the Soviet Union were all present. For the historical context see Diplomatic history...

the most effective anti-Axis resistance fighters in those countries were also communist. Churchill appreciated that the Soviet Union for much of WW2 had...