Nikolay Ustryalov had refused to promote revolution in Europe, preferring instead to focus on industrializing Russia while waiting for an opportunity to contest the Versailles system. 

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Russia assisted Weimar Germany with its clandestine efforts at rearmament. As a National Bolshevik regime rather than a communist one, Russia had less hostile relations with Nazi Germany than the OTL Soviet Union, although they weren't exactly positive because the Nazi tenet of Lebensraum always lingered in the background. 

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Despite this, in late 1938, Russia began a secret rapprochement with Nazi Germany, because both were revisionist states. This culminated in the signature of the Treaty of Non-Aggression between Germany and Russia by Joachim von Ribbentrop and Russian Foreign Minister Alexander Lvovich Kazembek on 10 June 1939. 

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On 25 August, Germany invaded Poland, followed three days later by a Russian invasion. The Winter War ended in a Russian victory and the annexation of Finland because Ustryalov was less paranoid than Stalin and didn't purge his military, but Finland would become independent again during the 1990s. 

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Unlike commonly believed, Russia and Germany did not fully cooperate during the pact's existence. Rather, they were rivals who actively competed for influence in the Balkans. Furthermore, Hitler continued to dream of acquiring "living space" for the German people and enslaving the "subhuman" Slavs. 

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The Kazembek-Ribbentrop Pact was terminated on 22 June 1941, when Nazi Germany invaded Russia, and was formally abrogated five days later. Except for Finland, the territories Russia annexed during the pact's existence remain a part of the Russian state. 

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