3a According to the report, did the
USSR know anything about the Munich Agreement? Choose one short extract
from the source to support your answer. 3b Who was the aggressor? 3c Choose another extract from the
source which shows that the USSR did not approve of the Munich Agreement.
3d Look at the following list of points
about this source:
It was written by a British government official.
It was a secret report not meant for publication.
It was written in Moscow.
Its purpose is to simply describe what is being said in the Soviet
press.
Which of these points would you see as strengths or weaknesses of the source
in terms of finding out about the Soviet reaction to the Munich Agreement?
Explain your answer. 3e Look at Source 4. Does it suggest
that this source is an accurate reflection of what the Soviet press was
saying? Explain your answer. 3f This report simply describes what
the Soviet press said about the Agreement. Use this source and the other
material in this case study to reconstruct an article from a Soviet newspaper
of the time commenting on the Munich Agreement. You will have to take the
main points in this source and make them the basis of your article.
Fill out the relevant line of your Case Study Worksheet.
Look at your answers to the questions on source 3.
Have they provided you with any evidence or ideas which will help you answer
the Big Question in this Gallery?
If they have, note them down on your Case Study Worksheet.
A report from the British Ambassador in
Moscow to the Foreign Office, October 1938. It is commenting on how the
Soviet newspapers reacted to the Munich Agreement