Editing Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact (section)

==Termination==
[[File:EasternPoland 1939 border Germany-USSR.jpg|thumb|The new border between [[Nazi Germany]] and [[Soviet Union]] from September 1939 to June 1941, somewhere in the [[Occupation of Poland (1939–1945)|occupied territory of Poland]]]]

Germany unilaterally terminated the pact at 03:15 on 22 June 1941 by launching a massive attack on the Soviet Union in [[Operation Barbarossa]].<ref name="stalinswars82">{{Harvnb|Roberts|2006|p=82}}</ref> Stalin had ignored repeated warnings that Germany was likely to invade<ref name="stalinswars67">{{Harvnb|Roberts|2006|p=67}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9E06E4D71638F931A25755C0A9639C8B63 |title=Stalin's Intelligence |publisher=[[The New York Times]] |work=Review of books by Murphy, Pleshakov, and Service |date=12 June 2005 |access-date=27 March 2010 |first=Niall |last=Ferguson |author-link=Niall Ferguson |archive-date=9 November 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171109134403/https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9E06E4D71638F931A25755C0A9639C8B63 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{Harvnb|Roberts|2006|pp=67–68}}</ref> and ordered no "full-scale" mobilisation of forces although the mobilisation was ongoing.<ref name="stalinswars69">{{Harvnb|Roberts|2006|p=69}}</ref> After the launch of the invasion, the [[territories of Poland annexed by the Soviet Union|territories gained by the Soviet Union]] as a result of the pact were lost in a matter of weeks. The southeastern part was absorbed into [[Greater Germany]]'s [[General Government]], and the rest was integrated with the [[Reichskommissariat]]s [[Reichskommissariat Ostland|Ostland]] and [[Reichskommissariat Ukraine|Ukraine]]. Within six months, the Soviet military had suffered 4.3&nbsp;million casualties,<ref name="stalinswars116">{{Harvnb|Roberts|2006|pp=116–117}}</ref> and three million more had been captured.<ref name="stalinswars85">{{Harvnb|Roberts|2006|p=85}}</ref> The lucrative export of Soviet raw materials to Germany over the course of the [[Nazi–Soviet economic relations (1934–41)|economic relations]] continued uninterrupted until the outbreak of hostilities. The Soviet exports in several key areas enabled Germany to maintain its stocks of rubber and grain from the first day of the invasion to October 1941.<ref name="ericson202">{{Harvnb|Ericson|1999|pp=202–205}}</ref>