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Churchill and Stalin: an unlikely alliance
From 1917 to the 1950s, Winston Churchill had a long and bumpy relationship with the Soviet Union, and it had a profound effect on his reputation in America. Taylor Downing charts the zigzags.
‘Kill the Bolshie. Kiss the Hun.’ This was Winston Churchill’s message as Secretary of War in 1919. He suggested being lenient to Germany, the defeated power in the Great War, while doing all that was possible to bring down the new Bolshevik government in Russia.
Churchill had a tumultuous relationship with the Soviet Union that continued for more than 40 years of his political career. And it started badly.
Churchill, Roosevelt, and Stalin – awkward allies – at the Yalta Conference.
It is not surprising that Churchill, a member of one of the leading aristocratic families of Britain and naturally conservative in his thinking, was diametrically opposed to Communism. The Bols
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