Weird portrait by a spiteful mob Aug 19, 2008
The CPA only began to support the war effort in mid 1941 when Germany unilaterally broke the Nazi-Soviet pact and invaded the Soviet Union. Not far from the MCA, the British-born Nigel Jamieson's play Gallipoli is showing at the Sydney Theatre. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Opinion)
Profoundly Superficial Jul 1, 2008
Nor did any of the judges at Nuremberg make much of the infamous Nazi-Soviet Pact that precipitated the whole, bloody cataclysm that was the Second World War. That alliance between fellow dictators was simply tossed down the memory hole. (Townhall.com)
With friends like these . . . Apr 19, 2008
Subsequent "Kronstadt moments" included the Stalinist purges of the 1930s, the 1939 Nazi-Soviet pact, the neo-Stalinist show trials in eastern Europe in the early 50s, Khrushchev's exposure of Stalin's crimes in February 1956 and the Soviet invasion of Hungary in November of that year ... In fact, Bunglawala's attitude to Rushdie goes to the heart of whether the progressive-Muslim alliance is a genuine conversation or the contemporary equivalent to the Nazi-Soviet pact. (Guardian Unlimited -- Books)
Are you smarter than a 17-year-old? Feb 26, 2008
D) The signing of a secret Nazi-Soviet pact. 6) Which American poet wrote the volume of poetry Leaves of Grass, which includes the line "I celebrate myself, and sing myself". (USA Today -- News)
Book review: "Defying Dixie" Jan 7, 2008
She rightly emphasizes, though, how the surprising Nazi-Soviet Pact of August 1939 destroyed the left-liberal Popular Front and upended the Southern left's argument that Jim Crow represented American fascism. Instead segregationists could use American Communists' subservience to Moscow to tar their liberal and socialist allies as fellow travelers. (International Herald Tribune -- Arts)
Due respect at last - from most Nov 6, 2007
The Communist Party, which opposed the war against Nazism between 1939 and 1941 due to its support for the Nazi-Soviet Pact, went so far as to label those who enlisted murderers. This changed when Hitler's forces invaded the Soviet Union and communists everywhere were ordered to support Joseph Stalin's regime in Moscow against the Nazi threat. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Opinion)
The slow creep of conservatism Oct 30, 2007
Yet his version of a social contract included the banning of the Communist Party during the time of the Nazi-Soviet Pact in the early days of World War II, an unsuccessful attempt to ban the Communist Party during the Korean War in 1951 and a lifelong advocacy of the White Australia policy. It's difficult to reconcile the real Menzies with the hero Rudd recalls. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Opinion)
The tax system: What (not very) small business thinks. By Simon Sweetman Oct 8, 2007
So these are businesses too small to be handled by HMRC's national Large Business Office (which handles the 900 or so largest UK businesses), where we hear from both sides that relationships have improved with the introduction of client relationship managers and more transparency all round (some of it, frankly, sounds too good to be true, something like Molotov and von Ribbentrop on the Nazi-Soviet pact). These businesses will be handled by the local Large Business Offices, where large is a... (Accounting Web, UK)
ANDREW ROBERTS: At stake in the Iraq war - survival of a way of life Jul 12, 2007
As Paul Wolfowitz put it at a commencement in June 2001: "Surprise happens so often that it's surprising that we're surprised by it."Examples include: The 1898 sinking of the USS Maine, the 1899 Boer invasion of Cape Colony, German Emperor Kaiser Wilhelm II's right hook through neutral Belgium in 1914, the Nazi-Soviet Pact of 1939, North Korea's invasion of its southern neighbor, Gamal Abdel Nasser's nationalization of the Suez Canal in 1956, North Vietnam's decision to begin armed revolution... (Fresno Bee -- Opinion)
Unpolished?How Poland is not winning friends and influencing Europe Jul 4, 2007
The then Polish defence minister, Radek Sikorski, spoke out against deals done behind his country's back, recalling the Poles' memory of betrayal over the 1939 Nazi-Soviet pact to carve up Poland in World War II.. Since then Russia's unyielding policy of wresting back state control of energy production in Russia, and buying into more downstream delivery systems abroad, has further strengthened its hold over Europe's energy security. (BBC News -- Europe)
EU protests over Russian attacks on ambassadors May 3, 2007
Estonians view the Soviet troops as much as occupiers as liberators, since Stalin had annexed the Baltic states under the Nazi-Soviet pact. Later there were ominous signs that Moscow might put economic pressure on its former satellite, as oil shipments through Estonian ports were rerouted. (Guardian Unlimited)
'Rules' broke conventions (Gary Arnold) Apr 26, 2007
A Communist Party sympathizer (though not a member) while committed to the Popular Front coalition of the mid-1930s, Mr. Renoir was obliged to absorb the shock of the Nazi-Soviet pact a month or so after his movie took a thrashing. After the German invasion and conquest in the summer of 1940, Mr. Renoir quietly formulated plans to exile himself as soon as possible. (Washington Times, DC)
Russia and Poland in bitter row over Auschwitz's victims Apr 10, 2007
"For the Poles to accept this is to accept the Nazi-Soviet pact.". Wladyslaw Bartoszewski, former Polish foreign minister and wartime resistance fighter who was incarcerated at Auschwitz, wrote: "They can desecrate their own graves if they want to. But we Poles will not allow ourselves to be misused ... or allow the Jews and Poles who died there to be declared Soviet citizens.". (Guardian Unlimited -- World)
HONORING EVIL Mar 22, 2007
You might have entered the CPUSA because of its staunch anti-fascist policies of the late 1930s, but if you wanted to remain in it after the Nazi-Soviet Pact, you had to accept that alliance as well as begin denouncing Franklin Roosevelt and the New Deal as imperialistic and profess indifference as to whether Hitler's Germany conquered Great Britain. Soviet money propped up the party from its founding. (New York Post -- Opinions)
Damned if you don't Mar 17, 2007
Until the collapse of the Nazi-Soviet pact, they saw Britain as a colonial aggressor engaged in another of its imperialist wars and they felt honour-bound to offer resistance. In Britain the great fear was that Hitler would invade via the back door of Ireland's south-west coast, and rumours abounded of German spies and parachutists being made welcome in Kerry and Cork. (Guardian Unlimited -- Books)
Does Cable Street matter? Oct 5, 2006
" So, opposing immigration makes you Fascist, does it? Opposing the constant colonization of Britain by non-Britons, makes you a Fascist does it? If the BBC is run by left-wing globalists, they're not doing a very good job of hiding it, are they? The BBC are the true fascists, stifling honest debate about serious issues.Karl Baxter, Inverurie The school of academic thought that says the BUF was irrelevant is not exactly as outlined above. Stanley Payne (1996) argued that the BUF was... (BBC News -- UK)
Why Bush should go to Tel Aviv - and confront Iran Jul 17, 2006
Tell the Poles of 1939, and the French of 1940, that they really had little to worry about because the Nazi-Soviet pact was bound to fall apart. The war against radical Islamism is likely to be a long one. (Financial Times)
Politics: The Leader In Lieberman Jul 8, 2006
(It was this great-uncle who had the bad judgment to sign an open letter supporting the USSR just before the 1939 Nazi-Soviet pact was signed. . (Investors Business Daily)
Poland slams Russian fuel policy May 21, 2006
Mr Sikorski recently compared the deal to the pre-World War II Nazi-Soviet pact which carved up Poland. The $5bn (2. (BBC News -- Europe)
Russo-German deal irks Poland May 1, 2006
Radek Sikorski reportedly compared the deal to a pre-World War II Nazi-Soviet pact dividing up Poland. He said the move by Germany raised questions about the feasibility of a common European foreign policy. (BBC News -- Business)
