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Seventy-five years ago, on 23 August, the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany signed a cooperation and non-aggression pact. The now infamous Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact divided Europe and provided with its secret provisions an evil platform that set the stage for the Second World War. The Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact divided Europe in a half Nazi, half Communist continent. It stands as a stark reminder that totalitarianism in its various forms leads to death and destruction.
US Capitol. Photo: Ludo Segers
US Capitol. Photo: Ludo Segers

Within days of the signing, in September 1939, Hitler’s army of Nazi Germany invaded Poland. Soon thereafter Russia’s Stalin occupied Finland and the three Baltic States, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania. The Nazi SS and the Soviet NKVD joined their evil forces in rounding Jews that had escaped the brutality of Stalin’s regime. Stalin’s for

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