Ribbentrop-Molotov Pact

Poland, Baltic States, Romania sign declaration on Ribbentrop-Molotov Pact

Eighty years ago Ribbentrop (l) and Molotov (r) signed a Soviet-German non-aggression pact with a secret, additional protocol, which, in fact, divided Eastern Europe into spheres of influence and meant a partition of Poland. Public domain

The foreign ministers of Poland, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia and Romania wrote in a joint declaration published on the 80th anniversary of the Ribbentrop-Molotov Pact that it led to the outbreak of World War II and doomed half of Europe to decades of misery.

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