> I imagine every country had some plans of occupying Europe at some point or another, saying USSR was planning on occupying it based on Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact

> I imagine every country had some plans of occupying Europe at some point or another, saying USSR was planning on occupying it based on Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact is lie. Well, Stalin saying this, on record, many times, also told "American lies?" The giant USSR's military buildup prior to WW2 was for fighting whom? Stalin did not believe his own spies telling him Hitler was planning an attack on him.