Sergey Oboguev

"If we had accepted the Soviet proposals at the time we would have been spared World War Two."
(British Prime Minister Attlee, 1945.)

Потому и.

"Tell your government that I am always ready to abrogate the Franco-Soviet pact in order to conclude a broad based Franco-German pact."

(French Foreign Minister Pierre Lavalle to the German Ambassador in Paris.)

"Leave us our colonial empire and we'll let you have the Ukraine."

(French minister Bonnet to Ribbentrop.)