On 16 April 1922, the German Republic of Weimar and the Soviet Union agreed on the Treaty of Rapallo, in which they renounced territorial and financial rights against each other. [16] Each side also claimed neutrality in the event of an attack on the other with the Treaty of Berlin (1926). [17] Trade between the two countries declined sharply after the First World War, with trade agreements signed in the mid-1920s helping to increase trade to 433 million marks per year in 1927. [18] Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT), negotiations between the United States and the Soviet Union to limit the manufacture of strategic missiles capable of carrying nuclear weapons. The first agreements, known as SALT I and SALT II, were signed in 1972 and 1979 by the United States and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics and aimed to limit the arms race of strategic (long-range or intercontinental) nuclear-armed ballistic missiles. For the first time proposed by U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson in 1967, strategic arms limitation talks were agreed by the two superpowers in the summer of 1968, and in November 1969 comprehensive negotiations began. On 24 August, Pravda and Izvestia reported the public parts of the pact, with the now infamous cover of Molotov, who signed the treaty with a smiling Stalin.

[49] On the same day, the German diplomat Hans von Herwarth, whose grandmother was Jewish, informed the Italian diplomat Guido Relli[110] and the Chargé d`affaires Charles Bohlen, in the United States, of the secret protocol on vital interests in the “spheres of influence” assigned to the countries, but did not reveal the rights of annexation for “territorial and political reorganization”. [111] [112] The public conditions of the agreement thus went beyond the terms of an ordinary non-aggression treaty – which required the two sides to consult and not assist a third party who was attacking – that Gunther hear a joke that Stalin had joined the anti-communist pact. [108] Time magazine called the pact a “Communazi Pact” several times until April 1941 and its participants “Communazis”. [113] [114] [115] [116] [117] After the conclusion of the trade and credit agreement between Germany and Germany, the question of improving political relations between Germany and the USSR arises. [102] On January 10, 1941, Germany and the Soviet Union signed an agreement that resolved several ongoing issues. [205] Secret protocols of the new agreement amended the “secret additional protocols” of the German-Soviet Treaty on Borders and Friendship and sent the Lithuanian Band back to the Soviet Union in exchange for $7.5 million (31.5 million Marks). [205] The agreement officially established the border between Germany and the Soviet Union between the Igorka River and the Baltic Sea. [206] In addition, it extended the trade regime of the German-Soviet trade agreement from 1940 until 1 August 1942, increased deliveries beyond the level of the first year of the agreement,[206] the trade rights populated in the Baltics and Bessarabia, calculated the compensation of German real estate interests in the Baltic states, now occupied by the Soviets, and covered other issues.

[205] It also concerned the migration to Germany of ethnic Germans and German citizens in the Soviet Baltic regions within two and a half months, as well as the migration to the Soviet Union of Baltic and “Belarusian” “nationals” in the territories held by Germany. [206] Shortly after the pact, Germany invaded Poland on September 1, 1939.