Episode 2: The Twisted, Evil, Inside-Out Rom-Com

What brought Nazi Germany and the USSR to the brink of war in June 1941? What about their odd alliance in the late 1930s? 

The relationship between these opposite tyrannies played out like the macabre inverse of a romantic comedy. Nothing was funny.

Maps to help: 

Battle of Khalkin Gol 

 

German invasion of Poland: 

 

Soviet invasion of Poland 

 

Finland 1940