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September 28 1939
the Soviet-German agreement for the partition of Poland concluded on September 28, 1939, stipulated that the partition of the Polish State between the two Contracting Powers excluded any interference with this decision on the part of the other Powers.
Had the partitioning States succeeded in carrying through the above claim, the USSR would-under accepted international law-have been released from its legal international responsibility for the violation of its treaties with Poland (especially the treaty of Non-Aggression of May 5, 1934), and the obligations resulting therefrom, and have acquired legal title to its annexation of Polish territories together with the Germans.
This explains the pressing appeal of the Soviet Government and press (Sep-tember 1939) to England and France, demanding that they stop further military operations against Germany and agree to consider the partition of Poland as the conclusion of the war.
The two Western Democracies, however, kept their pledges to Poland.
That deprived the Soviet Government of any possibility of sanction in international law for its acts on the territory of the "conquered" Polish State.