This genre photo shows headquarters of Russia's Federal Security Service, Lubyanka Square of Moscow
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Russia Declassified Files re: Munich Pact of 1938
The RF Foreign Intelligence Service declassified files related to the Munich Pact of 1938 that enabled Adolf Hitler to occupy a portion of Czechoslovakia, RIA Novosti reported.
The files are the information and analytical reference reports provided by the Soviet Intelligence Service to the country’s leadership.
British and French ambassadors to Prague urged Czechoslovakia’s president to yield the Sudetenland to Germany, said Sergei Ivanov, chief of the news service of the RF Foreign Intelligence Service. Britain’s PM Neville Chamberlain and Prime Minister of France Édouard Daladier were exactly for that scenario.
What’s more, they demanded from Prague to annul the mutual assistance agreements with other states (including with the Soviet Union), guaranteeing the inviolability of state borders in return.
Britain that didn’t oppose the German expansion was aiming at military clashes of Germany and Russia, said WW2 veteran, retired Major-General Lev Sotskov, who selected the files. The standing of France was similar, according to declassified files.
The Munich Pact, whereby Germany invaded into the Sudetenland of Czechoslovakia didn’t prevent the war. Germany occupied the remaining portion of Czechoslovakia in March of 1939 and attacked Poland September 1, 1939.
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