The Nazi-Soviet Pact of August 23, 1939, shocked the world. Stephen Kotkin, a Hoover Institution senior fellow and biographer of Joseph Stalin, discusses the purpose of the treaty and its earth-shaking impact and describes rare photo albums housed at the Hoover Institution Library & Archives that document the signing of the pact in the Moscow Kremlin.
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