Seventy-five years ago this past weekend, Vyacheslav Molotov left Berlin without the second Molotov-Ribbentrop treaty Moscow and Berlin had sought (and that would have contained a second set of “secret protocols”) because Hitler refused to agree to the Soviet annexation of Finland and Moscow’s expansion into the Balkans and Turkey. That made war between the … Continue reading Stalin’s expansionist designs blocked signing of second Molotov-Ribbentrop treaty