it isn't hard to understand his position. After all, Britain and France tried to appease Hitler in the 1938 Munich Agreement by giving him over 11,000 square miles of Czechoslovakia, a region known as Sudetenland. Of course, they did this without consulting with the Czechs. Interestingly enough, the Sudetenland contained nearly all Czechoslovakia's mountain fortifications, leaving the country defenseless. A few months later, Hitler seized the rest of Czechoslovakia.

Given that history, I can see how Zeman can see that appeasement and land grabs are not a good idea. How dare he have an inconvenient memory of what happens when a country is forced to give up its terroritory!