From the AFP:
Lithuanian President Valdas Adamkus on Tuesday compared the situation in Georgia to the 1938 Munich crisis, when Western nations tried to appease Hitler’s territorial demands before World War II. “We can’t allow a second Munich, when the international community climbed down to Hitler,” he told Lithuanian public radio. “That led to World War II, to a huge tragedy and millions of victims.” Adamkus was traveling to Tbilisi Tuesday with his counterparts from ex- communist Poland, Latvia, Estonia and Ukraine, all of whom have sided with Georgia in the crisis. A senior Lithuanian foreign ministry official used the same analogy in comments to AFP Tuesday. Zygimantas Pavilionis said the West mustn’t let Russia have its way in Georgia. “We’re afraid of setting a precedent. We could see a repeat of the Sudetenland in Czechoslovakia,” he said, referring to the 1938 crisis when Nazi Germany occupied part of Czech territory on the grounds that it was populated by German- speakers. Pavilionis also called on NATO to provide military aid to Georgia to stop what he called Russian “military aggression.” “Our friends have been subjected to military aggression, and we should use all the means we have to stop it,” he said.
