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There would be no prolonged war. The Polish army was fairly easily smashed.
The brutalization of the population of the Soviet Union, and of Poland for that matter, should be sufficient.
Oh come on. Czechoslovakia was betrayed by the cowardly western powers, which is why it did not fight a pointless war. It certainly did not 'invite' the Germans. Nor is annexation any sort of argument. It didn't annex most of Poland either, yet atrocities were rife.
What are you talking about? It actually exists in exactly the same form, except as two states. Czechs exist, and Slovaks exist. Czechoslovakia was no failed state, in fact, it was one of the most successful eastern European states - as you stated, it was armed to the teeth.
Nobody expected Poland to win the Polish-Soviet war and yet they did. Unexpected things happen in war. Don't dismiss the fighting spirit of the Polish so easily.
Especially the Katyn massacre is very telling. I trust you know what I'm getting at.
Yes, of course I'm saying nothing ever bad happened. (/s in case it isn't obvious)
Just as the western powers decided to create Czechoslovakia they decided to un-create it. That's how it goes with such nations.
Large parts of the population actually did. After all the Sudetenland was predominantly German. The Slovaks were also more happy than sad about it. They became an independent nation. Now obviously the Czechs were not all too happy about it as they've dominated Czechoslovakia up until this point.
You could say in the end Germany just retook historic German territory and righted some wrongs of the Treaty of Versailles.
Either way you look at it the entire ordeal was sliiiiightly more complex than "HITLER WANTS MORE TERRITORY!"
Czechoslovakia had its own share of serious ethnic troubles. That's the very reason why the entire thing even happened.
That's quite the funny statement.
But anyway the Czech and Slovak republic of today have little bearing on Czechoslovakia of pre WW2. Things change in over a century.