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To: dfwgator
"That was the same attitude in Britain in 1938. Which is why Chamberlain had no choice but to appease Hitler in Munich."

However, Britain, France and Russia had an agreement to protect Czechoslovakia. When Britain and France went to meet Hitler in Munich, they never contacted Russia about the meeting or invited them, so they were already planning on appeasing Hitler. Russia would have thrown a monkey wrench into the plan. In the end, that's one of the reasons why Russia ended up signing the non-aggression treaty with Germany. Chamberlain could have had a treaty with Britain and France, but he slow-walked it, because he disliked Stalin. Had Russia, France and Britain chosen to take military action to stop Hitler from taking Czechoslovakia, it's likely they would have succeeded, because Hitler did not have the military or weaponry to stop them.

55 posted on 04/15/2026 10:36:09 AM PDT by mass55th (“Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway.” ― John Wayne)
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To: mass55th

In the end, that’s one of the reasons why Russia ended up signing the non-aggression treaty with Germany.


Also because Hitler gave Russia half of Poland, which Britain and France were unwilling to do.


56 posted on 04/15/2026 10:38:12 AM PDT by dfwgator ("I am Charlie Kirk!")
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To: mass55th
In the end, that's one of the reasons why Russia ended up signing the non-aggression treaty with Germany.

The treaty that also divided Poland, Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, and Romania into spheres of influence between the two totalitarian states.

63 posted on 04/15/2026 11:25:55 AM PDT by tlozo (“We get a lot of bullshit thrown at us by Putin, if you want to know the truth,” Trump)
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