Serious research must show that those were the foreign policy methods then, he said, adding: The Soviet Union signed a non-aggression treaty with Germany. People say: Ach, thats bad. But whats bad about that if the Soviet Union didnt want to fight, whats bad about it? Secret protocols of the pact in which the Nazis and the Communists agreed to divide up Finland, Estonia, Lithuania, Latvia, Romania and Poland into spheres of influence were officially denied by the Kremlin until 1989. Mr Putin appeared to imply the secret protocols continued to be a matter of dispute today, saying, people still argue about the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact and accuse the Soviet Union of dividing up Poland. In 2009, the Russian leader condemned the Nazi-Soviet pact as immoral but said France and the UK had destroyed any chance for an anti-fascist front with the Munich Agreement.
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