What Is The Relationship Between Stalin And The Soviet Union

The relationship of these two countries leading up to the war was very different on both sides. Hitler hated the Soviet Union thinking of it as Jewish led country trying to destroy Nazi Germany. Stalin acted with great paranoia when dealing with the Nazis he trusted them, while Hitler on other hand was scheming to destroy them. In 1939 the two countries signed the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact or the Soviet and German nonaggression pact. This would guarantee peace for the next 10 years and the exchange of manufactured goods between the two countries. This pact would also divide Poland down the middle splitting it between the two countries for themselves. It would also put the Baltic States under the sphere of influence of the Soviet Union. Stalin