Putin says England and France responsible for Nazis march into Europe.

[David Guyatt]

It seems to me that Putin is really quite pissed off with the west's attitude following the MH17 and Ukrainian debacle. I can't blame him for that.

I note that sting in the tail in the following in the final paragraph that cites un-named "critics", un-named because I suspect they were written solely by the journey responsible for this article.

Vladimir Putin suggests Britain and France were responsible for the Nazi march into Europe



Putin is reported to have said that historians attempt to 'hush up' the 1938 Munich Agreement

PAVAN AMARA

Thursday 06 November 2014

Russian president Vladimir Putin has suggested that Britain and France were responsible for the Nazi's march into Europe.

[B][B]Putin is reported to have said that historians attempt to "hush up" the 1938 Munich Agreement, in which Britain and France agreed to Adolf Hitler's occupation of Czechoslovakia's Sudetenland.[/B][/B]
[B][B]It led to the carving up of Poland and other Eastern European countries at the start of the Second World War. The non-aggression treaty saw Poland virtually disappeared from the map, 20,000 Polish officers and intellectual executed by the Soviet secret police, and the killing of three million Jewish people in Poland as a result of the Holocaust.[/B][/B]
[B][B]The Telegraph reported that on Wednesday Mr Putin told a meeting of young historians in Moscow that Neville Chamberlain, the British Prime Minister at the time, had "waved a piece of paper and said, 'I've brought you peace' when he returned to London after the talks."[/B][/B]
[B][B]The comments were recorded in a Kremlin transcript.[/B][/B]

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[/B][/B][B][B]He added: "To which Churchill, I think, said somewhere to a small group of people, 'That's it, now war is inevitable'. Because compromise with an aggressor in the form of Hitlerite Germany was clearly leading to a large-scale future military conflict, and some people understood that."
Referring to the 1939 Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, which Moscow had made with Hitler, Putin said: "Serious research must show that those were the foreign policy methods then. The Soviet Union signed a non-aggression treaty with Germany. People say: 'Ach, that's bad.' But what's bad about that if the Soviet Union didn't want to fight, what's bad about it?"
But, in 2009, Putin referred to the same Nazi-Soviet pact as "immoral".
Days after this agreement with Moscow had been made, Hitler launched his invasion of Poland. The Nazis easily advanced with no significant opposition, as the Nazi-Soviet treaty meant there was no threat of Russia retaliating on behalf of Western Poles. Britain and France could offer little support when they declared war, because of the dual-threat of German and Russian forces in the region.
Critics say Mr Putin is increasingly altering historical events as a means of bolstering his authoritarian rule.
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The fact remains that Putin's view is tame compared to reality. The west financed Hitler and continued to finance him in the certain knowledge that he was massively re-arming -- which he was forbidden to do under the Versailles Treaty. The idea was that Hitler would be permitted to militarize in order that he would then march into the Soviet Union with the consent of the western powers. It didn;t work out that way entirely, so the facts had to be changed to alleviate those guilty of manipulating WWII into being.

[Magda Hassan]

It seems to me that Putin is really quite pissed off with the west's attitude following the MH17 and Ukrainian debacle. I can't blame him for that.

I note that sting in the tail in the following in the final paragraph that cites un-named "critics", un-named because I suspect they were written solely by the journey responsible for this article.

Vladimir Putin suggests Britain and France were responsible for the Nazi march into Europe



Putin is reported to have said that historians attempt to 'hush up' the 1938 Munich Agreement

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The fact remains that Putin's view is tame compared to reality. The west financed Hitler and continued to finance him in the certain knowledge that he was massively re-arming -- which he was forbidden to do under the Versailles Treaty. The idea was that Hitler would be permitted to militarize in order that he would then march into the Soviet Union with the consent of the western powers. It didn;t work out that way entirely, so the facts had to be changed to alleviate those guilty of manipulating WWII into being.

He is entirely correct of course. And they and the US are also behind the resurgence of fascism in Europe because of their economic austerity policies and the usefulness of the fascist tools to the ongoing agenda. Much like the first time around.