The events of September 30,
1938 "must be remembered as a reminder of the consequences of politically
manipulating public opinion, flirting with Nazism, and the infantile pandering
to neo-Nazism".
MOSCOW,
October 2. /TASS/. The actual capitulation of West European powers to Nazism as
a result of the Munich Agreement allowed Hitler to unleash World War Two,
Russia’s Foreign Ministry said in a statement on Monday, marking the
remembrance of this event.
"September
30 is one of the darkest days in world history," the statement begins.
The ministry’s communique recalls that on September 30, 1938, British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain and his French counterpart Edouard Daladier met with Adolf Hitler and Italian Prime Minister Benito Mussolini in Munich to sign an agreement that later became known as the Munich Betrayal, which led to the German occupation of Czechoslovakia’s regions known as the Sudetenland.
The statement
notes that Czechoslovak delegates were invited to the meeting only because they
were to rubber stamp that document with their signatures. Poland and Hungary
also took part in the shameless division of Czechoslovakia, the statement says.
According
to the Russian Foreign Ministry, historians consider the Munich Betrayal as
Western European capitulation in the face of surging Nazism. The statement goes
on to say, "the heads of the leading Western European countries refused to
join forces with the Soviet Union against Nazism and opted instead to appease
the aggressor in the hope that this would divert the threat from them and send
the German war machine to the East. Later on the same day, September 30, 1938,
Neville Chamberlain signed a non-aggression pact with Adolf Hitler.
France did
the same three months later, on December 6, 1938."
"Actually,
the Munich Betrayal allowed Hitler to start the Second World War, a global
disaster that resulted in untold losses to all humankind, but primarily in the
Soviet Union, where the war against the so-called brown plague claimed nearly
30 million lives," the statement reads.
It took
progressive international forces considerable time and incredible effort to
create the anti-Hitler coalition to defeat Germany and liberate Europe. The
Nuremberg Trials outlawed the misanthropic Nazi ideology and practices, the
Russian Foreign Ministry noted.
The events
of September 30, 1938 "must be remembered as a reminder of the
consequences of politically manipulating public opinion, flirting with Nazism,
and the infantile pandering to neo-Nazism, which is reappearing in new forms in
Europe," the statement reads.
Source:
ITAR-TASS 03-10-2017
