Neville Chamberlain

PM writes in The Economist that Ukraine situation is similar to 1938

The prime minister pointed out that in February 2007, almost 70 years after "the infamous Munich conference, Vladimir Putin openly announced his desire to dismantle the post-cold war order in Europe." www.economist.com

Poland's prime minister, Mateusz Morawiecki, has said there are “striking" similarities between Russia's invasion of Ukraine and the 1938 Munich agreement, which sacrificed Czechoslovakia to appease Hitler and paved the way for German aggression the following year.

Desperate telegram from Poland’s Jews to British PM Neville Chamberlain prior to outbreak of WWII found after 80 years

Author Steven E. Zipperstein says that the document which begins ‘In the darkest and most tragic hours of history and life…’ was discovered after 82 years but “there is no evidence that Chamberlain or anyone in his office discussed it or, indeed, ever even saw it.”

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