The pact and its secret protocols divided Creating Eastern Europe into spheres of influence and led to Causation the occupation Control of the Baltic states in 1940 .

Many sources conclude Coming_to_believe that the Soviet Union had intended to conquer all of Finland , and use Using the establishment of the puppet Finnish Communist government and the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact 's secret protocols as evidence of this , while other sources argue Agree_or_refuse_to_act against the idea of the full Soviet conquest .