Who initiated German-Russia non agression pact?

Answer 1

The original pact was proposed by the nazi Germany foreign minister, von Ribbentrop in 1939.
After some negotiations with his soviet counterpart, Vyacheslav Molotov, they agreed to divide eastern europe into "areas of german influence" and "areas of soviet influence", and to sign a non-agression pact which the germans would later dishonour.

The pact was known as the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact because those were the two foreign ministers during the negotiations.

Answer 2

The key event was after the Munich agreement, when Stalin fired his foreign minister, Litinov, and replaced him with Molotov. Litinov was Jewish, and had woerked hard since Hitler came to power to forge an anti-german alliance with the west. The Munich agreement showed Stalin that Britain and France were too weak to stand up to Hitler. But as long as Litinov was the foreign minister, there was no prospect of any agreement between Germany and Russia, so replacing him with Molotov was a clear sign to the germans that Russia's policy was open to change.

Answer 3

The %. advise that Hitler would have a unfastened hand to invade Poland or any of the Western eu countries without interference from the U.S.. till the %., something of Europe assumed that Stalin would attack Germany if the Nazis invaded Poland. particularly, the Soviets and Germans shared the spoils. The %. additionally meant that the Soviets ought to invade or bully their friends like Finland, Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia without risking conflict with Germany.

Answer 4

It was cooked up between the German Secretary of State von Ribbentrop and his Russian counterpart Molotov.

Answer 5

I thought Ribbontrop's official title was foreign minister? But, yeah, bottom line, the first guy's got it.