>>938474044
Oh, oh my. Yes, this sounds much much better. A much more fitting place for me.

The Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, yes. However, due to the failing of that pact the Soviets scrambled to join a nonagression pact with Japan. In fact, the Japanese emissary who was sent to negotiate with Stalin was embraced before his departure and thanked for savingthe Soviets from having to fight a two front war. It wasn't until very close to the end of WWII that the Soviets had any interest in Japanese territorial gains, however, it was also the Soviets that tried, prior to the dropping of the a-bombs, to broker a peace agreement between the Allies and the Japanese.