These efforts would eventually materialize into the infamous “Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact” of 1939. This pact, signed by the two countries’ foreign ministers, would lock the pair of nations into a neutral non-aggression pact. On the surface, this document was just a simple statement of professed neutrality, but delve deeper into the treaty, and you find the secret provisions that guaranteed whole-scale division of Eastern Europe into Soviet and German domains of influence.
