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Originally Posted by warrrreagl
So I guess that put an end to the German-Soviet "Peace and Friendship" Treaty, huh?
Also on June 22, but in 1940 - France surrendered (what's new?). Hitler forced the instrument of surrender to be signed in the very railcar in which the French inflicted the humiliating World War I Treaty of Versailles upon the Germans.
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'twas the end of mutual non-agression...
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- Robert S. McNamara
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you both get dirty;
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