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FORGOTTEN ALLIANCE: HITLER-STALIN PACT OF 1939 AND THE OUTCOME OF SECOND WORLD WAR
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Author(s):
YAOCHUILA KASAR
Vol - 7, Issue- 3 ,
Page(s) : 22 - 33
(2016 )
DOI : https://doi.org/10.32804/CASIRJ
Abstract
Seven and a half decades have passed since the beginning of the Second World War but the memory of the war remains still very clear in our mind. It is because the sacrifices and suffering inflicted by the war was so great unlike any other war that even today millions of people continue to give serious attention to the mention of such event. However, until now the blame game is on and cannot corner down as to who started the war, the western powers were refused to accept that it originates from them and thwarting towards Russia. Whereas Russia blamed the western powers policy failures to dose off the fascist menace at the nascent stage. With regards to the questions about the genesis of the Second World War, there are certain attributes given by noted scholars and renowned historian in this area which remains unresolved mysteries lately. The debate continues until recently and while in the midst of this blame game on the seventieth anniversary of the beginning of the Second World War, in August 2009; Angela Merkel declared it was Germany who started the Second World War.
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