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The Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact says otherwise.

German and Soviet troops that met in Poland after invading from the west and east had no trouble in celebrating their victory together, holding parades and such.

As John Gunther—who was in Moscow when the world learned of the pact's existence in August 1939—wrote, "communism and Fascism were more closely allied than was normally understood".



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