By Nikos Mottas.
"If
we see that Germany is winning we ought to help Russia and if Russia
is winning we ought to help Germany, and that way let them kill as
many as possible...”
- Harry
Truman, 1941.
Since
the end of the Second World War, the bourgeois historiography has
tried to distort various incidents in order to vilify Socialism and
the USSR. One of these incidents- which has been a "banner" of
imperialism's apologists and other anticommunists- is the so-called
“Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact”* which was signed in 1939. In it's
unscientific, unhistorical effort to equate Communism with Nazism,
the bourgeois propaganda presents the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact as a
medium of expansive policy by the USSR and Hitler's Germany. The
distortion of historical events, the amalgamation of lies and the
half-truths by the Imperialists and their collaborators aim in
defaming the huge role of the Soviet Union in the anti-fascist
struggle of WW2.
However,
the reality is different than the one presented by the bourgeois
historiography. Here, we will examine the circumstances and the
events which led to the Molotov-Ribbentrop non-aggression pact, in an
effort to debunk the anti-communist propaganda on this matter.