Submitted by Jason McDonald on Sat, 2014-07-26 22:45
As part of the Nazi-Soviet Pact of August 1939, a secret protocol was enacted that gave the Nazis Romania as within their sphere of influence. Earlier in the year, Britain and France had tried to guarantee Romania's borders, but Romania's refusal to allow the Red Army to cross its borders kept Russia out of the pact, and the guarantee fell apart.
