"Having tried and failed to negotiate a suitable treaty of alliance with the British and French, and fearing an Anglo-French design of involving them in a war with Germany which they would have to fight alone, the Soviets turned to a deal with Hitler."

"The Soviet Union and the Origins of the Second World War" Russo-German Relations and the Road to War, 1933-1941

Geoffrey Roberts

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