Talk:Franco-Soviet Treaty of Mutual Assistance

Nazi nonsense

I have removed the following: "Although it was scrupulously worded so as not to violate the letter of the Locarno Treaty, the Treaty was regarded by Germany as a violation of its spirit. Insofar as the French had long known that Germany would view the Treaty in that light, the French decision to proceed can be regarded as a conscious decision to participate in a second encirclement of Germany.

In response to the threat to Germany clearly presented by the Franco-Soviet alliance, Germany remilitarised the Rhineland and began fashioning anti-Communist alliances with neighbouring states. Most serious commentators regarded the German move, which had long been anticipated by British and French foreign policy experts and military leaders, as a necessary one. Former British Prime Minister David Lloyd-George stated in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom that Hitler's actions in the wake of this pact were fully justified, and he would have been a traitor to Germany if he had not protected his country."

Almost all of the above is a lie. There was no encirclement policy against Germany in the 1930s, at least in the sense that it is meant here (and nor was there before 1914). The Franco-Soviet pact did not pose a "threat" to Germany-it was a defensive treaty. Hitler was "threatened" by the Allies. Who knew? It is a real shame that this posed by an IP back in December 2012, adn this was allowed to stay on this article for so long--A.S. Brown (talk) 16:37, 12 February 2015 (UTC)

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