HJA360634 Stalin pats Ribbentrop on the back, while Molotov scans the signed pact which partitioned Poland, from \'The Illustrated War News\', published 1st November 1939 (b/w photo) by English Photographer, (20th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact signed on 24th August 1939 in Moscow but dated 23rd August; Treaty of Non-Aggression; Vyacheslav Molotov (1890-1986) was a Soviet politician and diplomat; Joachin von Ribbentrop (1893-1946) was the German Foreign Minister from 1938-46; Joseph Stalin (1878-1953) was the Soviet dictator from 1924;); English, out of copyright.