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He thought the allies would hand over all of Berlin to the Soviets.
Joseph Stalin hoped that the Treaty of Versailles would result in Hitler causing a Civil War. He wanted Communists to take over the country of Germany.
Stalin's mother had hoped that he would become a priest, and it appears that he did enrol to become one. The circumstances of his expulsion from the seminary are disputed, but it appears that he was considered unreliable and not a good student.
Poland, both Germany and the soviet union signed a non-agression pact that sid they would not attack eachouther and to divide Poland equaly to the two countries.
The Russains told the polish people that they would protect them from Hitler and the Nazi's
It is unlikely that Hitler would have bothered with Poland and risk a potential eastern enemy on his eastern front. It would have been much safer to keep Poland as a buffer between Germany and the USSR. Even with troops stationed in Poland, Germany easily defeated France in the West. As quickly as France had fallen, it would have fallen faster if Germany had to be careful on the eastern front.
so he could fight a one a sided war with Poland, without having to be bothered whether or not Stalin would invade
A clause in the Hitler-Stalin pact (also known as the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact) stated that half of Poland would go to the USSR, while the other half would remain in Nazi Germany's control. This was considered a gesture of peace between the two nations.
I hoped you would ask. I hoped to go with you. I hoped to die, but not any more. I hoped for money and my wish came true.
In the late 1930's Stalin believed that the German - Soviet Non aggression Pact would protect the Soviet Union from an invasion by Germany.
The pact also secretly agreed to divide Poland and other parts of eastern Europe between the two powers.
As per the secret clause of the German-Soviet Non-Aggression pact of 1939, the Soviet Union would take over the eastern half of Poland if Hitler attacked Poland from the west. This Hitler did on September 1, 1939. Stalin's troops shortly there after took over the eastern half of Poland. In 1940, Stalin the danger of having 22,000 Polish officers and Polish intellectuals remaining in the areas of Poland his army occupied. In one of the first atrocities of the war, Stalin had 22,000 Polish officers and others executed in a forest in Eastern Poland by the NKVD. This mass execution was denied by the USSR for decades. Finally in 1990 the NKVD documents concerning these executions were unclassified. What the Poles already knew now became public knowledge. There is now an annual commemoration of this massacre in honor of the victims and their families. Only Hitler was the cruelist dictator of all times, however, Stalin is in 2nd place for acts against humanity.