Stalin's personal motivation was world domination. Just Lenin before him and other USSR leaders later. Ribentrop-Molotov pact secret protocols wasn't „self defe

Stalin's personal motivation was world domination. Just Lenin before him and other USSR leaders later. Ribentrop-Molotov pact secret protocols wasn't „self defence“. Even though both parties knew they'll eventually go to war against each other. I didn't study Stalin's proposal to Finland that much, but essentially it was same deal as for other Baltic states. Take our military bases for „defence“ and we may sweeten the deal a little bit with a gift. Because who cares if we're going to annex you next summer one way or another :) Couldn't do that in 1920, but USSR thought it's strong enough in 1939. For example Lithuania and Vilnius case. Well, so nice of him to give back historical capital, isn't it :) Just to use sweeten the deal of installing army bases in Lithuania-proper and then using them to annex the whole country next summer.