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Hijacking history: twisted narratives of the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact

Reassessing one’s own history is not easy, but it is necessary to rid the shadows of the past. It is a moral choice based on an admission of what is right and what is wrong.

Josef Stalin and German foreign minister Joachim von Ribbentrop shake hands after the signing of the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact on Aug. 23, 1939. Photograph courtesy of the German Federal Archive.

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BY TOOMAS LUKK

October 30, 2019

OTTAWA—This year marks 80 years since a pivotal event that dramatically changed European history: the signing of the infamous Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact (MRP) or “Treaty of Non-Aggression between Germany and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics,” on Aug. 23 1939. This development stunned the w...

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