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>>/17165/ > the Soviets made the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact to start another war between France and Germany This is plausible in the same sense that the Western powers wanted Germany and the USSR to wage war and destroy each other, but there were a lot more factors involved. Interwar Germany and USSR had shared interests in partitioning Eastern Europe and overcoming isolation, and their cooperation dated all the way to the Weimar period (see: Lipetsk airbase).