Ringo
Gold Member
The speed with which the history of the Second World War and pre-war Europe is being rewritten is sometimes simply surprising. It seems that the task has been set to do this as quickly as possible, and all the forces have been thrown at it.
Including cinema. Recently, the film "Munich. On the verge of war." In general, a good feature film about one of the key events that led the world to the most terrible war in the history of mankind. A movie with a claim to historical truth. In general, the process of concluding a "deal" is shown quite well and, probably, even relatively truthfully. But…
What do we know about the Munich conspiracy? First of all, the fact that this is the very event that is hardly worth romanticizing. Because it's a disgrace and a betrayal. They say it was an attempt to appease Hitler, but it's hard for me to call it true. At that time, there were other, much more effective ways to appease the Third Reich, which had not yet gained strength. Germany at the time of the Munich Agreement and Germany during the invasion of Poland were very different in strength. In principle, the subject of the "Munich agreement", the Sudetenland of the Czech Republic, and then the anschluss of the whole country became the very element that raised the industrial power of Germany to the necessary height. In addition, the Munich agreement opened the gates to Hitler to the east. And even though Poland participated in the partition of the Czech Republic, having "bitten off" the Tesin region from it, the fate of Poland was also predetermined. Poles might think that they were very close friends and allies of Hitler and that together they were about to pounce on the Soviet Union and tear it apart, but Poland itself was already an aperitif on Adolf Hitler's menu.
France and Great Britain in 1938 had enough strength to solve the problem of Nazi Germany, radically and quickly put an end to Adolf Hitler. Moreover, they could do this by fulfilling their allied obligations during the German invasion of Poland. These two countries were still much stronger than Germany militarily. But the problem is that no one was going to appease Hitler. And the fact that Germany "devoured" Poland, too, did not particularly surprise anyone. For one reason - after Poland, Germany had to attack the USSR, and that suited everyone. Absolutely all the facts point to this: first of all, when the USSR wanted to save the Czech Republic from death in the jaws of a Nazi monster, it was simply not allowed to do so.
The Western powers miscalculated only in one thing —they thought that the monster would be satisfied with the Czech Republic and Poland, (which they "had to protect", but they did not), and would attack the USSR, but before that, Hitler very easily, playfully "cheated" France and created a very big threat to Great Britain. This was not part of the plans of Western politician!.
In general, it is clear that there is a Munich conspiracy — a shameful stain in the history of Western countries, something that unleashed Hitler's hands and pushed him to the beginning of World War II. And now you can convince everyone as much as you want, that the notorious Molotov-Ribbentrop pact is to blame for everything, but for those, who know history, it sounds completely unconvincing.
Let's go back to the Netflix movie. At the end of a fairly good movie there is a brief information in text — just a few sentences. And that's exactly what it is, the main one. I quote:
"The peace between Britain and Germany lasted only a year. Unable to withstand criticism, Neville Chamberlain resigned and died a couple of months later.
During the time won by the Munich Agreement, Britain and its allies managed to prepare for war, thanks to which Germany was defeated."
Read it and think about it. This is exactly what is the key message, what will remain in the head of the Western man in the street, who has watched this film. And there is no place for the USSR and for the Great Patriotic War, in which the Red Army broke the back of the nazi monster. This is an insignificant episode, perhaps the very time during which Great Britain and its allies "managed to prepare for war, thanks to which Germany was defeated." Maybe a movie will be made about this. After all, the term "Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact" also needs to be revealed to the Western layman correctly, so that there is no doubt, who exactly is to blame for the outbreak of the Second World War. And what kind of battles are these for Moscow, Stalingrad, Kursk and the capture of Berlin? They have no place in the history, that is being written right now.
Yes, I understand that the Western powers after the war were very uncomfortable with the fact that the USSR saved the whole world from the nazi plague. But then absolutely everyone in the world understood and knew it, so they have to live with this, although history began to be rewritten literally immediately. But there was still some traces of conscience. And now all the brakes are removed. The task is to try to erase the USSR from the history of the Victory over nazism, and ideally - to present it as evil.
And all this, of course, with an eye on modern Russia.
Including cinema. Recently, the film "Munich. On the verge of war." In general, a good feature film about one of the key events that led the world to the most terrible war in the history of mankind. A movie with a claim to historical truth. In general, the process of concluding a "deal" is shown quite well and, probably, even relatively truthfully. But…
What do we know about the Munich conspiracy? First of all, the fact that this is the very event that is hardly worth romanticizing. Because it's a disgrace and a betrayal. They say it was an attempt to appease Hitler, but it's hard for me to call it true. At that time, there were other, much more effective ways to appease the Third Reich, which had not yet gained strength. Germany at the time of the Munich Agreement and Germany during the invasion of Poland were very different in strength. In principle, the subject of the "Munich agreement", the Sudetenland of the Czech Republic, and then the anschluss of the whole country became the very element that raised the industrial power of Germany to the necessary height. In addition, the Munich agreement opened the gates to Hitler to the east. And even though Poland participated in the partition of the Czech Republic, having "bitten off" the Tesin region from it, the fate of Poland was also predetermined. Poles might think that they were very close friends and allies of Hitler and that together they were about to pounce on the Soviet Union and tear it apart, but Poland itself was already an aperitif on Adolf Hitler's menu.
France and Great Britain in 1938 had enough strength to solve the problem of Nazi Germany, radically and quickly put an end to Adolf Hitler. Moreover, they could do this by fulfilling their allied obligations during the German invasion of Poland. These two countries were still much stronger than Germany militarily. But the problem is that no one was going to appease Hitler. And the fact that Germany "devoured" Poland, too, did not particularly surprise anyone. For one reason - after Poland, Germany had to attack the USSR, and that suited everyone. Absolutely all the facts point to this: first of all, when the USSR wanted to save the Czech Republic from death in the jaws of a Nazi monster, it was simply not allowed to do so.
The Western powers miscalculated only in one thing —they thought that the monster would be satisfied with the Czech Republic and Poland, (which they "had to protect", but they did not), and would attack the USSR, but before that, Hitler very easily, playfully "cheated" France and created a very big threat to Great Britain. This was not part of the plans of Western politician!.
In general, it is clear that there is a Munich conspiracy — a shameful stain in the history of Western countries, something that unleashed Hitler's hands and pushed him to the beginning of World War II. And now you can convince everyone as much as you want, that the notorious Molotov-Ribbentrop pact is to blame for everything, but for those, who know history, it sounds completely unconvincing.
Let's go back to the Netflix movie. At the end of a fairly good movie there is a brief information in text — just a few sentences. And that's exactly what it is, the main one. I quote:
"The peace between Britain and Germany lasted only a year. Unable to withstand criticism, Neville Chamberlain resigned and died a couple of months later.
During the time won by the Munich Agreement, Britain and its allies managed to prepare for war, thanks to which Germany was defeated."
Read it and think about it. This is exactly what is the key message, what will remain in the head of the Western man in the street, who has watched this film. And there is no place for the USSR and for the Great Patriotic War, in which the Red Army broke the back of the nazi monster. This is an insignificant episode, perhaps the very time during which Great Britain and its allies "managed to prepare for war, thanks to which Germany was defeated." Maybe a movie will be made about this. After all, the term "Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact" also needs to be revealed to the Western layman correctly, so that there is no doubt, who exactly is to blame for the outbreak of the Second World War. And what kind of battles are these for Moscow, Stalingrad, Kursk and the capture of Berlin? They have no place in the history, that is being written right now.
Yes, I understand that the Western powers after the war were very uncomfortable with the fact that the USSR saved the whole world from the nazi plague. But then absolutely everyone in the world understood and knew it, so they have to live with this, although history began to be rewritten literally immediately. But there was still some traces of conscience. And now all the brakes are removed. The task is to try to erase the USSR from the history of the Victory over nazism, and ideally - to present it as evil.
And all this, of course, with an eye on modern Russia.
