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Hitler and Stalin signed it in 1939, and though neither knew it, they both had no intention of keeping the agreement. They both used it to buy time to prepare for war with the other, hoping to catch the other off guard. Hitler broke the pact first by invading Russia with operation Barbarossa on June 22, 1941, with a line of troops extending from the Baltic Sea to the Black Sea.

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