Aleksey Zhuravlyev, leader of the Rodina Party fraction in the Duma, has introduced legislation that would annul as far as the Russian Federation is concerned the December 1989 decision of the USSR Congress of Peoples Deputies denouncing the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact and its secret protocols.
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From left: Friedrich Gaus from Germany, Joachim von Ribbentrop, German Foreign Minister, Joseph Stalin, Soviet head of state and his Foreign Minister Vyacheslav Molotov pose on Aug. 23, 1939 in Kremlin in Moscow after signing the Soviet-German Non-Aggression Pact, making the outbreak of a European war virtually inevitable. After the ceremony, Stalin proposed a toast: "I know how much the German people love their Fuehrer" (Hitler), he said. "I should therefore like to drink to his health".
