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...Foreign Minister Molotov signed a 20-year treaty of alliance with Soviet puppet Hungary. Exultantly he proclaimed: this is the last link in the barrier against the imperialist states. "The Soviet Union now has pacts with all the states on its western frontier-from the Black Sea to the Baltic...
...secret protocol tothe Nazi-Soviet pact divvied up Poland and split the Baltic States between Russian and German spheres of influence. From the protocol: "The question of whether the interests of both parties make desirable the maintenance of an independent Polish state and how such a state should be bounded can only be definitely determined in the course of further political developments. . . . Attention is called by the Soviet side to its interest in [Rumania's] Bessarabia...
What power! We have known nothing like it since my ancestor, Peter the Great, broke a window into Europe by overrunning the Baltic states in the 18th Century...
Molotov made that clear to Hitler in 1940 during the days of the Nazi-Soviet Non-Aggression Pact. Molotov demanded recognition of Russian interests in Rumania, Bulgaria, the Dardanelles and Finland, besides the Baltic states and part of Poland, as the price of continuing friendship. In fact, Byrnes believes that Molotov's stubborn rooting away at Europe's fences was what sent Hitler into a rage and precipitated the Nazi invasion of Russia...
...weakened by many factors today. Moreover, we have a pact with Russia. Pacts, however, are only held as long as they serve the purpose. . . . Let one think of the pact to assure our back. Now Russia has far-reaching goals; above all, the strengthening of her position in the Baltic. We can oppose Russia only when we are free in the West. [France had not then been overrun, and Hitler was still thinking of trying to cross the Channel.] Further, Russia is striving to increase her influence on the Balkans and is striving toward the Persian Gulf. That is also...