Minsk ‘Worse than Munich,’ Landsbergis Says
Minsk ‘Worse than Munich,’ Landsbergis Says by paul goble (noreply@blogger.com) Saturday February 14 th , 2015 at 11:16 AM Window On Eurasia -- New Series 1 Share P aul Goble Staunton, February 13 – Many including the author of these lines have compared what happened in Minsk this week with what happened in Munich in 1938, but Vytautas Landsbergis, the man who played the key role in recovering the independence of Lithuania, argues that the Minsk meeting was “much worse than Munich.” One reason for that conclusion, he points out, is that in 1938, there were no SS officers from the Sudetenland taking part and demanding the dismemberment of Czechoslovakia. “At the very least, they were not sitting” at the negotiating table. But in Minsk, precisely such people were ( ru.delfi.lt/news/politics/landsbergis-eto-huzhe-chem-myunhen.d?id=67161678 ). As a result, the Western participants lent to them