On 22 May 1939, Hitler and Mussolini signed the Steel Pact, a form of political and economic alliance concerning their cooperation and a political union between Germany and Italy; Thus, the 1936 axis agreement between Rome and Berlin was formalized to establish political and military ties between the two countries. The anti-break pact was renewed on November 6, 1937 as a treaty between Italy, Germany and Japan. Outraged by the German-Soviet non-aggression pact, Japan renounced the anti-communist pact on August 23, 1939; However, he later joined the Tripartite Pact of 27 September 1940. The pact committed Germany, Italy and Japan to “help each other by all political, economic and military means” when one of them was attacked by “a power that is not currently involved in the European war or the Sino-Japanese conflict” (i.e. the Soviet Union or the United States). Germany and Japan signed another treaty, a commitment of cooperation against the Soviet Union that took place at the end of the same month. In secret discussions with the Germans on July 20 and 21, 1939, the Slovak government agreed to participate in the planned German attack on Poland. The Slovaks also agreed to allow Germany to use their territory as a marching zone for German troops. On August 26, 1939, the Slovak Republic mobilized its armed forces and formed a new field army called “Bernolák”, consisting of three divisions and 51,306 soldiers. In addition, 160,000 reservists were summoned and 115,000 entered service until September 20, 1939. Total Slovak losses during the campaign amounted to 37 KIA, 114 WIA and 11 MIA. “On August 20, 1939, Hitler sent a personal message to Stalin asking him to receive Ribbentrop no later than the twenty-third.

Ribbentrop went to Moscow where, as Orwell and Koestler noted, swastikas adorned the airport of the capital of the homeland of socialism. This, the last ideological clash that separated Koestler from communism, was really a sign that the Soviet Union was no longer an ideological state. The two regimes immediately found common ground in their common desire to destroy Poland. the Soviet Union had agreed to attack Poland with Germany. . In August and September 1939, Stalin was reading maps not only of Eastern Europe, but also of East Asia. He had found an opportunity to improve the Soviet position in the Far East.