Quote:
Originally Posted by FireGilbert
The Spartan who showed the Persians the secret passage at Thermopylae.
The Scottish who helped capture William Wallace.
King Henry VIII to Anne Boleyn and Catherine Howard.
The British and French promising to protect Czechoslovakia and Poland prior to WWII only to later have them taken over by the Nazis then the USSR.
|
They did honour the polish treaty, though I dont think Hitler thought they would, and called their bluff, but they werent bluffing. Molotov-Ribentrop might be the biggest betrayal. I think the allies were counting on Soviet support but Stalin was playing both sides.