Tag: annexing Galicia to the Ukrainian SSR

Stalin’s Annexation of Western Ukraine a Major Error, Russian Historian Says

August 26, 2014

Staunton, August 24 – Stalin made “an error” in annexing Galicia to the Ukrainian SSR via the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact because what Moscow needed with war on the horizon was “the establishment of buffer states on the border of the USSR and not their being pulled into the Union itself,” with all the border changes that […]