"... Both the London and the Paris governments were determined not to be placed in the position of having to fight against as opposed to for self-determination in the future."
"Had there been no agreement..." Weinberg, V. II, p. 460, and fn. 327.
Stalin, who had been the sole country to denounce Munich in 1938, was in a position not only to demand a large chunk of Czechoslovakia, but also a whole hell of a lot more, all of Eastern Europe, in 1945, thanks only to the US. p. 460.
Re Ukraine, See DK post paragraph 9; The Clash of Civilizations, Huntington, with whom I mostly disagree, but see maps, p. 166, and opposite p. 158, pb. edition; and Kievan Rus', Wikipedia.
Americans, both before and since Munich, have, of course, totally misunderstood, and intentionally misinterpreted, its context, meaning, and implications, including historians, although they had been privy to much of the background through political and diplomatic channels all along. Weinberg, p. 462.
The Scheinehund of Munich would be dealt with soon enough!
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