[Egorka]

Hello,

This pact is not a real secret (even the secret part, though USSR denied it's existence). I have a history of WW2 book from 1946 printed in Stokholm, Sweden and this pact is printed there.

Secondly, this was the only possible agrement USSR could realisticly get in 1939. Neither UK nor France would sign one with USSR. In essence it was the reaction on the apeacemnt policy of western allies trying to redirect Hitler's agression to the east.
Remember USSR had no allies at that point. So you can blame Chemberlain and Deladier for pushing Stalin to allie with Hitler.

And finaly about Baltic countries and Poland. Again, the part that USSR anexed from poland was anexed by poland from Soviet Russia in 1920. This terriory was ethnicaly not polish.
In fact, to Hitler's surprise, Stalin insisted in smaller Russian zone of influence than was proposed by Germany, because he did not want to split the actual Polish population in two (of course based on pragmatical reasons, not out of love to Polish folk).

The Baltic countries story a bit more complex and I do not have time for it now. Abviously it was an act of expansion, but to the territories historically belonging to the Russian Empier. So Geopoliticaly it was much less wrong than German actions or the colonial actions of the democratioc countries of the west. But about this an otehr time...


Best regards
Igor Korenev