You know what happened, you know, in 1938: France, England, you know, just sold out Czechoslovakia to Hitler.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
The Pact of Munich is signed. Czechoslovakia as a power is out.
I just happen to know quite a lot of what happened in Czechoslovakia between 1968 and the fall of Communism.
If I hadn't left Czechoslovakia, I would have been dead.
At Munich we sold the Czechs for a few months grace, but the disgrace will last as long as history.
I call on the Western democracies and primarily on the leader of the free world, the United States: Do not repeat the dreadful mistake of 1938, when enlightened European democracies decided to sacrifice Czechoslovakia for a convenient temporary solution... Israel will not be Czechoslovakia.
By the time I returned to Czechoslovakia, I had an understanding of the principles of the market.
We have given most of Europe to Hitler. Let us try to hold on to what we have got left.
Never forget that everything Hitler did in Germany was legal.
I am just sorry my own mother had to live under that regime for most of her life. I was lucky. I got out and, 14 years later, Czechoslovakia became a free country. So I feel anger, even fury, at this bloody system that ruined so many people's lives for no reason whatsoever.
My mum was born in the former Czechoslovakia, and even though my grandparents weren't wealthy, they were aristocrats in their time.
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