On August 24, 1939, i.e. 70 years ago, the Soviet foreign minister Molotov and the foreign minister of the German Reich von Ribbentrop signed the Treaty of Non-Aggression Between Germany and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, better known as the German-Soviet Non-Aggression Pact or simply Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact. Although the Pact was in form a non-aggression pact between two ideological enemies it committed the signatory powers to refrain from aggression against each other and to remain neutral if either became the object of belligerent action. Annexed to the Pact was a Secret Additional Protocol in which the two States agreed…