In Moscow’s Kremlin late on August 23, 1939, Soviet dictator Josef Stalin stood in the background beaming proudly as his foreign minister, Vyacheslav Molotov, and German dictator Adolf Hitler’s Reich minister for foreign affairs, Joachim von Ribbentrop, signed the Treaty of Non-Aggression between Germany and the USSR. Known variously as the Nazi-Soviet Pact, the Hitler-Stalin Pact, and the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, this notorious treaty negotiated by the two cynical dictators was in reality a death sentence for millions, as it paved the way for World War II in Europe. This sudden, unexpected rapprochement between two seemingly implacable enemies – Nazi Germany...