Why Did Stalin Sign The Nazi-Soviet Pact?

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The Nazi-Soviet Pact – This pact came as a shock to the entire world because communist Russia would never join hands with the Nazi Germany. The Pact included that one would invade countries and then give a share of it to the other. Thus Hitler invaded Poland in 1939 and was going to give some share of land to Russia. Stalin knew that Hitler wanted to ultimately destroy Russia. But he still chose signing the pact because he would be getting some share in Poland and also time to prepare for the imminent war. War was imminent because invasion of Poland came as a realisation for Britain that Hitler would not stop without war. Britain had lost Russia as an alliance because it was afraid of communism and also it did not sign a pact with Russia which