Who should the Czechs hate more for Munich in 1938: France, Britian, Poland, Hungary, Germany, or Russia?

Question

Was the appeasement of Hitler at Munich the worst dipolomatic crime in the history of the modern and post-modern world? How could the French and British not allow the Czech President to be present as his country was carved up? Doesn't this reek of Satan's influence on politics?

Sorry, I should of said hated...back in September 1938, not present day.

Answer 1

The Czechs were bartered away by a world tired of war, hoping to find peace by appeasement. We have all since learned that the only way to end aggressive behavior by rogue nations or governments is to unite in a common effort to end that behavior. The Czechs would probably have felt most discouraged with the English who should have been their defender. Neville Chamberlain and his government in England was determined to get around war, mostly because a guy named Winston Churchill was telling Parliament over and over that the rise of Nazi Germany could only be met with firm resistance, this created a political challenge to Chamberlain and he gambled the lives of the Czech people on his political future.

Answer 2

I don't think Satan had anything to do with it. The Czechs probably hated France and Britain the most because they left them out of the negotiations. Not too much different than the US going to war in Iraq - even though the United Nations had a say - they didn't listen. Nothing much has change in 60 years eh? You have to remember that France and Britain (other than Germany) were considered the two super powers at that time - and Britain had a lot more control over the world colonies - what they did was typical of what happened during, before and after the First World War - remember it was called the "British Empire" and France had its own ton of colonies too. I always found it ironic that they got so many volunteers in the RAF from the Czechs - even though the Brits betrayed them.

Answer 3

The Czechs should not, and do not, hate anyone. What's past is past. Everyone learns to move on after tragic events. Hitler and the German government were solely responsible for starting and losing WWII.
No one wants war. The British tried to control Hitler. Witness the piece of paper that Neville Chamberlain got signed. Hitler signed a treaty with the Soviet Union, then broke the treaty.
In France, they knew what was going on. The French, after 1814 and Napoleon Bonaparte, have always been weak and unwilling when faced with the prospect of war. The French did not support the current war in Iraq.
Satan's influence was limited to Adolph Hitler. Put the blame where it belongs.

Answer 4

Use English in Poland, Czech Rep. and Slovakia and Russian or English in Russia. You can also learn some basic words of Czech, Polish, and Slovak many of them are quite similar, some of them have completely different meanings despite of the fact that they sound the same, what is a reason of some funny language misunderstandings. For example Polish word for "to look for" means completely other activity in Czech. I would advise you against to use Russian in Poland, Czech Rep. and Slovakia. If you were Russian tourist it would be no problem, but you are not Russian and everybody will realize very fast that it is not your native language. Than some people (of course not everybody) could ignore you or be passive to such kind of tourist because many people in these countries don't like when somebody from other country (especially from the west) looks at them from Russian point of view. They just receive it as if you ignored the fact that they stopped to be the members of Soviet bloc many years ago or as if you didn’t notice the difference between “all of these Eastern Europeans” what is just offensive for them. I think it would be even better to use German than Russian .

Answer 5

Yes, it was a very stupid diplomatic action, but Britain and France had good intentions. You surely can’t hate Hungary, because we only wanted Slovakia back and not Czech territories. Perhaps I forgot too much, but I don’t remember if Poland and the Soviet Union had anything to do with the decision. I would say Germany was the number one responsible for that, but as mentioned above, you can’t hate the Germans of today for that bu the political regime of the 1930s.
As for leaving out the Czechs from the negotiations, I guess it was rational. I mean, they surely wouldn’t have agreed with anything. And perhaps France felt a bit superior since she contributed a lot to the creation of Czechoslovakia.

P. S. : Take my condolescence for yesterday’s match.

Answer 6

Should they hate anyone ? Consider this...

Even though they were definitely cut loose at that time, and probably did feel betrayed, I would guess that feeling changed pretty quickly. England and France had pretty much the same treaties with Czechoslovakia as they did with Poland, but deserted this 'ally' and the Nazi's rolled into Prague virtually unchallenged.

Terrible yes, but look at the fate of the Poland that England & France 'saved' compared to the Czechoslovakia they gave up. Prague was spared the devastating street battles and aerial bombing that Warsaw suffered, and about 2% of the Czech population perished, while 16% of Poles died during the war (approx.)

Total war dead
365 000 Czechoslovakians
5.6 million Poles

As betrayed as they must have felt, they were at least alive to feel it...

Answer 7

What happened was appalling but hating people that are alive today is no way to stop it happening again. We need to learn from history not carry around hatred or prejudice.