Ukraine told critics of the pace of its three-month-old counteroffensive to "shut up" on Thursday, the sharpest signal yet of Kyiv's frustration at leaks from Western officials that say its forces are advancing too slowly.
Only after being rebuffed by a West more interested in appeasement throughout the 1930s. Stalin knew the USSR was ideologically opposed to both the Liberal Democracies and the Fascists of the time, but couldn't fight both should it have come to that, so he was looking for allies or at the least, a non-aggression pact.
The Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact is also not the Tripartite Pact, which is what created the Axis powers.
Only after being rebuffed by a West more interested in appeasement throughout the 1930s. Stalin knew the USSR was ideologically opposed to both the Liberal Democracies and the Fascists of the time, but couldn't fight both should it have come to that, so he was looking for allies or at the least, a non-aggression pact.
The Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact is also not the Tripartite Pact, which is what created the Axis powers.