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‘The Munich Agreement is 80 years old’

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Russian ambassador Alexander Karpushin
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By Alexander Karpushin* An “agreement” that went down in history as the “Munich Betrayal” of the four powers – Germany, Italy, Britain and France, was concluded in Munich 80 years ago on September 30, 1938. This act not only played a tragic role in the fate of Czechoslovakia, having sanctioned the beginning of its capture by Fascist Germany, but also became one of the key events that triggered the beginning of World War II. Having trampled upon the norms of international law the participants of the Munich meeting betrayed interests of Czechoslovakia and incited Hitler’s Reich to territorial expansion in…

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