Recently Russian
President Vladimir Putin defended the infamous pact between Nazi Germany
and the Soviet Union that agreed to divide up Eastern Europe, when on August
23, 1939, Germany and the Soviet Union agreed to carve up eastern
Europe between them in a secret clause of the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact on
non-aggression (this included secret protocols dividing up Poland and allotting the Baltic states to Moscow). Putin in 2009 had condemned this pact.
