It was exactly how it sounds. The germans and the soviets promised to be non aggressive towards each other. (Germany subsiquintly broke this pact)
The true purpose of the Soviet-German Non Aggression Pact was to allow each country to not be concerned with war between the two nations. It was also a plan to divide Poland in half. One half to the USSR, the other to Germany.
The non-aggression pact between Germany and the Soviet Union.
The German-Soviet Non-aggression Pact was also called Nazi-soviet Non-aggression Pact, German-soviet Treaty Of Non-aggression, Hitler-Stalin Pact, or the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact. It was signed in 1939 and was a non aggression pact between Germany and the Soviet Union that was signed a few days before the beginning of World War II. It divided eastern Europe into German and Soviet spheres of influence. Answer: The division of Poland between Germany and the Soviet Union
To invade Poland; to prevent a war with the Soviet Union in 1939. (The Soviets fought the Germans from 1941-1945). It might be better asked as to why the Soviet Union signed Russian-German Non-Aggression Pact, in that the pact was a German proposal.
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The German-Soviet Non-Aggression Pact was broken when Germany invaded the USSR in 1941. Hitler used the code name of Barbarossa for the invasion of the USSR.
That was Germany's Minister of Foreign Affairs, Von Ribbentrop.
The Soviet Union and Germany had non-aggression pact called the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact.
It was simply called the Nazi-Soviet Non-Aggression Pact
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Germany made one with the Soviet Union (Molotov-Ribbentrop pact) on 23/8 1939. Also Poland had a non-aggression pact with Stalin's Soviet, but violated in Sept 1939.
Stalin was surprised by the German invasion of the Soviet Union because he had signed a non-aggression pact with Germany, known as the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, and believed that Hitler would not attack.