Press photograph, distributed by an American photo service agency. The censored, and carefully worded caption, dated May 3, 1945, provides the Soviet motives for the signing of the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact by the Soviets. As if that 'justification' was not enough to satisfy the Soviet ally, the photograph was
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GERMAN-SOVIET TREATY OF NON-AGGRESSION
(Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact)
August 23, 1939

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