The Munich Agreement of 1938 (06.05.2024)
A street monologue by Vitalii Dribnytsia on the Munich Agreement of 1938. It lays out the participants in the partition of Czechoslovakia (Germany; Hungary under the First Vienna Award; Poland with the Cieszyn region; the puppet fascist Slovak State), the mechanics of the 1935 Soviet–French–Czechoslovak treaty, and the reasons for the appeasement policy on the part of Britain and France. A source for the article on the Soviet myth that “the USSR wanted to save Czechoslovakia.”
Key moments
- 05:00 Participants in the partition of Czechoslovakia: Germany (Bohemia/the Sudetenland), Hungary (southern Slovakia + Transcarpathia), Poland (Cieszyn), the puppet Slovak State
- 06:07 The 1935 treaty: aid to Czechoslovakia only after France had provided it
- 10:00 Why the West chose appeasement: exhaustion from World War I, the crisis of the 1930s, unwillingness to fight for a state that had emerged in 1918