What were the non-aggression treaty benefits to the Soviet Union?
Many people ask what was the benefit of the infamous Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact between Germany and the USSR. Here I will attempt an answer. The single most serious threat to Russia, both as a state and as an ethnicity, is a unified western Europe. Luckily for Russians, Europeans are usually too busy killing each other to ever unify properly against Russia. Whenever one European power gets strong enough to lead a coalition to ethnically cleanse Russia, another European power stabs them in the back. The picture I show above is a good example of this.
