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Before the rise of the Nazis and World War Two, although Churchill was wary of German militarism, he still looked favorably upon a strong Germany, even after World War One, as a bulwark against Soviet communism. As he told his friend Violet Asquith, “Kill the Bolshie. Kiss the Hun.” Naturally, that attitude changed, or at least it became more complex when the second world war broke out and bit off a piece of England’s ass.
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After the Soviets joined Great Britain against Hitler in 1941, as Churchill himself said, the Prime Minister “wooed Joe Stalin as a man might woo a maid.” By radio, he assured the British people that “the cause of any Russian fighting for his hearth and home is the cause of free men and free people in every quarter of the globe.” But among intimates, he worried about a post-war Europe dominated by Stalin: “I do not want to be left alone in Europe with the bear.”
-- “The Conquerors” by Michael Beschloss
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After the Soviets joined Great Britain against Hitler in 1941, as Churchill himself said, the Prime Minister “wooed Joe Stalin as a man might woo a maid.” By radio, he assured the British people that “the cause of any Russian fighting for his hearth and home is the cause of free men and free people in every quarter of the globe.” But among intimates, he worried about a post-war Europe dominated by Stalin: “I do not want to be left alone in Europe with the bear.”
-- “The Conquerors” by Michael Beschloss
