Dropping Her Anatomy Prior to 1939. And an Infamous Pact to Partition Poland.

            The Postcard

A postcard bearing no publisher's name that  was printed in England.  Note the way the girl is dressed - a far cry from the typical dress style of today's students. The same goes for the professor's mode of attire.

Note that the name 'Jean' has been written above the girl.

The card was posted in Stony Middleton on Wednesday the 23rd. August 1939 to:

Mrs. King,
25, Hastings Buildings,
Swan Mead,
Bermondsey,
London.

The message on the divided back of the card was as follows:

"Dear Kit,
Having a good time,
children in their glory
with the pigs and
chickens.
Love from all,
Jean".

The Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact

So what else happened on the day that Jean posted the card?

Well on the 23rd. August 1939, the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact was signed in Moscow by German Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop and Soviet Foreign Minister Vyacheslav Molotov.

It was officially known as the Treaty of Non-Aggression between Germany and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.

The pact between Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union enabled the two powers to partition Poland between them. 

Its clauses provided a written guarantee of peace by each party towards the other, and a declaration that neither government would ally itself to, or aid an enemy of the other. 

In addition to the publicly-announced stipulations of non-aggression, the treaty included the Secret Protocol, which defined the borders of Soviet and German spheres of influence across Poland, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia and Finland. 

The rumour of the existence of the Secret Protocol was proven only when it was made public during the Nuremberg Trials.

Soon after the pact, Germany invaded Poland on the 1st. September 1939. Soviet leader Joseph Stalin ordered the Soviet invasion of Poland on the 17th. September.

The pact was terminated on the 22nd. June 1941, when Germany launched Operation Barbarossa and invaded the Soviet Union, in pursuit of the ideological goal of Lebensraum.

After the war, Ribbentrop was convicted of war crimes and executed. Molotov died at the age of 96 in 1986, five years before the dissolution of the Soviet Union. 

Soon after World War II, the German copy of the Secret Protocol was found in the German archives and published in the West. However, the Soviet government denied its existence until 1989, when it finally acknowledged and denounced the Secret Protocol. Mikhail Gorbachev, the last leader of the Soviet Union, condemned the pact and admitted its existence. 

Vladimir Putin condemned the pact as 'immoral' but also defended it as a 'necessary evil'. At a press conference on the 19th. December 2019, Putin went further and announced that the signing of the pact was no worse than the 1938 Munich Agreement which led to the partitioning of Czechoslovakia.
   

Taken on: October 22, 2020

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