Discussion: Hitler-Stalin Pact/Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact of 1939
The Hitler-Stalin Pact is also known as the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, since the Soviet Foreign Minister of the time was Molotov, and the German Foreign Minister assigned for the negotiations was Von Ribbentrop.
It was signed in Moscow August 23-24, 1939 and was, on paper, an agreement between German and Russia to renounce war and plead neutrality. This pact remained in effect until June 22, 1941 when Germany invaded Russia in the famous Operation Barbarossa. Explain why the pact was ironic.