Seventy years of the Munich Agreement

[SEFARAD2K4]

I'm appalled by these idiots who defend Hacha and make up lies about the anti Nazi opposition.

[MrHistoryman45]

The great failure at Munich was the failure by Britain and France to accept Stalin's offer of help. Had Britain and France fought alone it is unlikely they would have achieved any more than they did for Poland, with the USSR  onboard things would have been different. As it happens Stalin could not even get transit rights to send forces to Czechoslovakia.

[MrRedFredSaid]

@MrHistoryman45 - Good points. I followed you here, by the way. ;)  The friends list function is helpful that way. Good video.

[SEFARAD2K4]

The only Czechs to oppose the destruction of the fatherland were the Communists. The capitalist traitors sold us to the Nazis. Fascists stick together!

[MrLasicak]

@SEFARAD2K4 Oh comunists....those comunists who one year later claimed that 2.ww is an imeprialist war and german soldier is brother-worker in uniform....hmmm...Those comunist who till 1935 support german efforts to destroy Czechoslovakia...:-/

[LANMANET]

The Soviet Union could have "stepped in" to help Czechoslovakia? Just like the Soviets "stepped in" to help Eastern Poland when the Germans invaded?

[sinitskyd]

The worst blunder was not Munich agreement but the Versaille treaty. Winners must treat losers gracefully, or this will eventually backfire. Similar cases: after WWII Germany/Japan were treated very nicely, and it worked out well. While Russia is not treated well after the Cold war, hence tensions today. Same for Israel vs. Palestinians after 1967 war. If Israel was more graceful and fare then, things would be much better now for both sides.

[werebear1]

I disagree about the treatment of Germans and Japanese, specially in the light of information being declassified from the archives. Ever heard of the firebombing of Dresden after the war ended? Do you think drooping an A-bomb in a big Japanese city is fair, specially when we know now the Japanese where instigated to attack, that there was foreknowledge and multiple warnings against USA interference in the war and that Pearl Harbor was allowed so as to get involved in a war that was not USA's?

[7boon]

There were actual plans to remove all the coal and steel from German control and leave them with a giant potato field. FDR thought the Germans needed revenge, and when this was peaked out the Nazis seized on this as reason to keep fighting.

Instead Truman and Ike realized the needed a strong Germany and came up with the Marshall Plan to help the winners and losers rebuild themselves.

[VictorWasechkin]

they did not "realize that" (Truman and Ike), but from the very beginning they had close contact with certain german bankers and production groups, which allowed them to get access to the advanced german technologies ahead of Soviets.

Unable to push Hitler only eastward, they tried to diminish the losses and destruction of germany.

and then there was Verner fon Brownwere and the nukes used against civilians in japan.

[sinitskyd]

Werebear, I am talking about after the war, not during the war. Certainly, what allies did to the Japanese and German civillians during the war was brutal. But after the war, there was Marshall plan and the emperor of Japan was allowed to stay and was treated in a civil fashion. Of course, this was done not because of good nature but because those countries were cultivated as allies in new Cold War.

[VictorWasechkin]

no, the fuckest blunder was Munich agreement

[raidenzero]

Your right, but he He said "Worst blunder of the 1930's" not the 20th cent.

[VictorWasechkin]

yes, these were the days when britco and french , supported by usa, betrayed the ideas of democracy in Europe, trying to push Hitler eastward.