| Tango01 | 28 Aug 2018 9:54 p.m. PST |
"t is often taken for granted that all European nations involved in the early Cold War, save Germany, fell naturally onto one side of the Iron Curtain or the other. Yet Czechoslovakia was not pre-ordained to become part of the Soviet sphere. There were multiple opportunities for the United States to influence its position on the political map of Europe. Czechoslovakia emerged from the Second World War unaligned. Hitler and Stalin had not allocated it in the 1939 Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact. Stalin and Churchill had not included it in their secret 1944 ‘percentages' deal, which designated spheres of influence in eastern and southern Europe. The victorious Allies had not discussed its orientation at Yalta or Potsdam. Both the Soviets and the Americans had liberated it. But whatever cards Washington had to play, diplomatically and militarily, it gave most of them up in 1945. ‘I believe that Russia wants to and will cooperate' in Czechoslovakia, President Roosevelt told the Czech Foreign Minister Jan Masaryk, a democrat unaffiliated with any party, in February 1944. Red Army officials, however, made clear to their Czech counterparts that the country would be brought within the Soviet sphere. What capacity the US Army had to countervail was circumscribed by the fateful decision of Generals George Marshall and Dwight Eisenhower to stop its own advance 50 miles west of Prague…"
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 Legion 4   | 29 Aug 2018 6:41 a.m. PST |
I don't think at that time the US didn't want to risk any "conflict" with Stalin. Czechoslovakia might just been deemed not worth it then. |
| Cacique Caribe | 29 Aug 2018 10:54 a.m. PST |
Did they ever find it? If so, where was it all this time? :) Dan |
| Tango01 | 29 Aug 2018 11:32 a.m. PST |
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| BrianW | 29 Aug 2018 12:56 p.m. PST |
Dan,
Like so many other things, it was hidden behind a wall. |
| Legion 4 | 29 Aug 2018 3:57 p.m. PST |
Well actually it no longer exists … There is no country on this planet that currently has that name …   |
| Cacique Caribe | 29 Aug 2018 9:07 p.m. PST |
But it got lost and then was found, before it split in two? Dan |
 javelin98 | 30 Aug 2018 7:38 a.m. PST |
It was behind the couch the whole time. |
| Legion 4 | 30 Aug 2018 7:41 a.m. PST |
Yes, that is the way I understood it Dan … |
| PVT641 | 30 Aug 2018 11:06 a.m. PST |
Cacique Caribe: And then was lost again. |
| d88mm1940 | 30 Aug 2018 4:59 p.m. PST |
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| Thresher01 | 30 Aug 2018 6:35 p.m. PST |
Depending upon the year in the 20th Century, NATO and the Czechs, and then, the Soviet Union, in that order. |
| Virginia Tory | 04 Sep 2018 9:11 a.m. PST |
In 45, it was in the Soviet Zone of Occupation per Yalta agreements. Not sure what "lost" means. Nobody was willing to start a fight at that point. |
| Frontovik | 10 Sep 2018 4:15 a.m. PST |
1938 guaranteed that there were a fair number of Czechs who weren't well disposed towards the West in 1945. |
