M. Zakharova: Munich agreement with Western countries allowed Hitler to start World War II
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At the briefing, the official representative of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Russia, Maria Zakharova, recalled that tomorrow (September XNUM) 30 years have passed since the Western powers signed the so-called Munich Agreement. This is the same Munich agreement, as a result of which the West closed its eyes to Hitler’s invasion of Czechoslovakia, which Poland, for example, used for its own purposes.
Maria Zakharova at the briefing:
September 30, unfortunately, one of the most tragic dates in the world stories. On this day, the Prime Ministers of Great Britain and France Chamberlain and Daladier signed an agreement with Hitler and Mussolini on 1938 in Munich, better known as the “Munich Agreement”, on the transfer of the Sudetenland to Czechoslovakia to Germany. Representatives of Czechoslovakia were present in the signing hall of this document formally, only to put their signatures under it under pressure. Poland and Hungary also took part in the unceremonious division of Czechoslovakia. Historical science assesses the Munich Agreement as a surrender of Western European countries to Nazism that is gaining momentum. Refusing to oppose German national-socialism together with the USSR, the leaders of the leading countries of Western Europe chose to pacify the aggressor, believing that they could withdraw the threat from themselves and send the German military machine to the East. On the same day, September 30 1938, British Prime Minister Chamberlain signed a non-aggression declaration with Hitler, and three months later, December 6, France signed a similar declaration with Germany.
According to Maria Zakharova, it was the Munich Agreement that allowed Nazi Germany to unleash World War II.
Recall that in recent times Poland has constantly raised the issue of the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, declaring that responsibility "for the USSR" is also responsible for fomenting the Second World War. At the same time, Warsaw is not willing to recall the events of 30 of September of 1938, as a result of which Poland itself took part in the redistribution of European borders.
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