...Severely weakened by the Great Depression and in no position
to make military threats,
Chamberlain and Daladier hoped to push Hitler's ambitions
eastward. The one unifying belief all four
leaders shared was their fanatical hatred of the
Soviet Union and anything remotely related to
International Communism.
A strong and well-armed Nazi regime in Central Europe, they
believed, was a necessary buffer to Soviet power. And with their
own domestic economic crises and their labor unions going
communist, France and England focused their attention not on the
threat of fascism but on the growing influence
of the Soviet Union. (Their positions on the
Spanish Civil War bear this fact out.)
France and England hoped Germany would
spark a shooting war with the Soviet Union and then they could sit back and watch the fascists and
communists tear each other apart. It didn't
work out that way...
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/josep
..."The declassified intelligence documents reflect the
political processes which took place before and after the Munich
Agreement of September 30, 1938, which is also called the 'Munich
conspiracy,'" Ivanov explained.
These documents were kept in the archives as top secret for 70
years. They show that the Soviet political leadership was informed
about the preparations for the meeting of Neville Chamberlain and
Eduard Daladier, on the one hand, and Adolf Hitler and Benito
Mussolini, on the other, and predict its potential military and
political consequences for Europe. The papers show what
unprecedented pressure Britain and France brought to bear on
Czechoslovakia, demanding that it ceded Sudeten to Germany.
"Moscow was receiving secret reports to the effect that the
British and French ambassadors in Prague were persuading the
Czechoslovak president to give over the Sudeten region to the
Germans. Moreover, Prague was offered to cancel mutual assistance
pacts with other countries," Ivanov said...
..."As early as November 1938, diplomatic missions of a number
of countries reported to their departments that Britain and France would not
prevent Germany's eastward expansion," Ivanov
said...
The documents received after the Munich conspiracy are
particularly valuable. They analyze the post-Munich situation in
Europe and clearly show that
Britain was trying to draw Germany
and the Soviet Union into active
hostilities," Sotskov emphasized in an
interview with RIA Novosti...
Later, on November 25, Grippenberg reported his conversation with a British
government member who assured him that Britain and France would not
interfere in Germany's eastward expansion.
"Britain's position is as
follows: let's wait until Germany and the U.S.S.R. get involved in
a big conflict," the document reads.
http://en.rian.ru/analysis/20080929/117271264.html
...The well-known historian, veteran of the Soviet intelligence,
retired Major General Lev Sotskov, who was dealing with examination
and analysis of the archive documents points out that Great Britain
which did not hamper the German expansion eastward deliberately
tried to involve Germany and the USSR
in a military confrontation. Also, France
adhered to such position according to the declassified
documents.
The Munich agreement, on the basis of which Germany occupied the
Sudet region, according to definition, could not prevent the war;
it is more likely that this treacherous and perfidious action
opened the gates
for Hitler to the East. In March, 1939 Germany
occupied the remaining part of Czechoslovakia and on September 1st
of the same year the German troops attacked Poland. Thus the Second
–World massacre started...
http://eng.nob.su/2008/12/11/the-truth-about
...A key factor in Britain and France's attitude towards Hitler
was a desire to steer his
ambitions eastwards and into war with Russia. In
that way, it was hoped, the two perils could eliminate each
other.
Stanley Baldwin, who preceded Chamberlain, was fairly frank.
In 1936, he told Tory MPs
alarmed about Hitler, that it would not 'break his heart' if the
tensions in Europe led to 'the Nazis fighting the
Bolshies'.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1066952/Andrew-Alexander-Its-just-rich-risk-bank-meltdowns.html?ITO=1490
