Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - A shekara ta 1939, bayan yunkurin kafa kawancen soja tare da Burtaniya da Faransa a kan Jamus ya kasa, Tarayyar Soviet ta yi canji mai ban mamaki ga Nazi Jamus. Kusan shekara guda bayan Biritaniya da Faransa sun kulla yarjejeniyar Munich da Jamus, Tarayyar Soviet ta kulla yarjejeniya da Jamus, a fannin soja da tattalin arziki a lokacin tattaunawa mai zurfi. Kasashen biyu sun kulla yarjejeniyar Molotov-Ribbentrop da Yarjejeniyar Kasuwanci ta Jamus-Soviet a watan Agusta 1939. Na farko ya ba da damar mamaye Soviet na Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Bessarabia, arewacin Bukovina, da gabashin Poland, yayin da Soviets suka kasance a tsaka tsaki. A ƙarshen Nuwamba, ba zai iya tilasta Jamhuriyar Finland ta hanyar diplomasiyya don mayar da iyakarta daga Leningrad ba, Stalin ya ba da umarnin mamaye Finland
Ka yi haƙuri. A gabas, sojojin Soviet sun sami nasarori da yawa a lokacin rikice-rikicen kan iyaka da Daular Japan a cikin 1938 da 1939. Koyaya, a watan Afrilu na 1941, USSR ta sanya hannu kan Yarjejeniyar Tsakanin Soviet da Japan tare da Japan, ta yarda da mutuncin yankin Manchukuo, jihar 'yar tsana ta Japan.