GREAT PATRIOTIC WAR

Moscow, Soviet Union • July 1, 1941 Early in the morning of August 24, 1939, the foreign minis­ters of Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union signed a treaty of non­aggres­sion, formally known by the two signa­tories’ names—the Molotov-Ribben­trop Pact, which bore the date August 23, 1939. Neither Foreign Minis­ter Vyache­slav Molotov (who was also Soviet Premier)…