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Bayrou's selection aligns with efforts to establish a nonaggression pact with the socialists, aiming to secure their commitment to abstain from voting against the government in future confidence motions.
—Stephan Pechdimaldji, Newsweek, 13 Dec. 2024
In August 1939, the Germans and Russians signed an agreement that included a nonaggression pact whereby Germany and the Soviets promised not to attack one another for 10 years.
—Linda Chase, Sun Sentinel, 31 Jan. 2024
Hundreds of Lithuanians thundered the patriotic anthem of national independence, which had been banned by the 1940 nonaggression pact between Hitler and Stalin, a deal that, in effect, condoned the Soviet seizure of Lithuania.
—Sam Roberts, New York Times, 10 Apr. 2024
Along the way, Berlin and Moscow sealed the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, a nonaggression treaty that included protocols on trade and the division of Eastern Europe.
—Hal Brands, Foreign Affairs, 29 Mar. 2024
The Soviet Union signed a nonaggression pact with Germany in 1939, so it was caught by surprise two years later when the Nazis invaded Ukraine, which was then part of the Soviet Union.
—Thomas Gibbons-Neff, New York Times, 5 June 2023
Toward the end of August 1939, the newspaper headlines were full of reports that Joseph Stalin, the Soviet leader, had signed a nonaggression pact with Adolf Hitler.
—Smithsonian Magazine, 15 May 2023
Before Gemany’s invasion, the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany entered into a secret agreement, under the guise of the Molotov-Ribbentrop nonaggression pact, which outlined German and Soviet spheres of influence over parts of central and east Europe.
—Jacob Lassin, The Conversation, 27 Jan. 2022
About a week after Wright’s speech circulated, Germany invaded the Soviet Union, ending their nonaggression pact and the Communist Party’s rationale for neutrality.
—Colin Asher, The New Republic, 19 Apr. 2021
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“Nonaggression treaty/pact.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/nonaggression%20treaty%2Fpact. Accessed 23 Dec. 2024.
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