Partners in Tyranny: The Nazi-Soviet Nonaggression Pact August 23, 1939

Sidney Allinson is the editor at the Royal Canadian Military Institute
and author of The Bantams: The Untold Story of World War I.

In the early hours of June 22, 1941, more than three million German
soldiers—nourished by food supplied by Russia, and supported by 3000
tanks, 7000 pieces of artillery, and 2000 aircraft, propelled by oil
supplied by Russia, on tires of rubber supplied by Russia—blitzed
across the Russian frontier, annihilating the unprepared Soviet defence
forces and raining death and destruction on the civilian population.

This Nazi blitzkrieg, which killed over 20 million Soviet citizens, was
the most fantastical surprise attack in history—launched by a war
machine that had been largely created by Stalin himself. Only two years
before, the socialist dictatorships of Germany and Russia had joined in
an unholy alliance: the Nazi-Soviet Nonaggression Pact, signed on August
23, 1939. This implacable book documents how that infamous Pact, also
known as the Molotov-Ribbentrop Treaty, opened the way for the conquest
of Poland, and started a chain of events that led directly to World War
II.

Kolasky has impeccable credentials for writing this study, having been
a long-time communist in Canada (until disillusioned by his own arrest
by the kgb during a covert training trip to Russia).

His book traces German-Russian secret military co-operation back to
1921, and follows it through the early years of World War II when Stalin
supported Hitler against the democracies. Kolasky supports his facts
with key documents, and provides a chilling look at the evil realities
of totalitarianism.