{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Acast","provider_url":"https://acast.com","height":250,"width":700,"html":"","title":"Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact – Part 4: Occupation, betrayal, and the road to war’s deadliest front","description":"In the weeks after the pact, the dominos fell at terrifying speed. Germany invaded Poland from the west. Days later, the Soviet Union invaded from the east. In less than a month, Poland was erased from the map, and a new order descended on Eastern Europe. The secret protocol was no longer just words—it was reality, and its cost would be counted in lives.\r\n\r\nThe Baltic states—Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania—soon found themselves under Soviet occupation. By nineteen forty, each was formally annexed into the Soviet Union. These takeovers involved staged elections, intimidation, and mass deportations. Across the new frontiers, millions faced displacement, repression, and death. The Katyn Massacre, in which thousands of Polish officers and intellectuals were executed by the Soviet NKVD, revealed the brutality that would define the coming years.\r\n\r\nLearn more at: https://thetreatyarchive.com/treaty/molotov-ribbentrop-pact","author_name":"The Archive Network"}