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Churchill
and Stalin
- Thoughts on
Communism
- Critic of the 1917
Russian Revolution -
sent British forces to
fight Lenin
- SUpported White
Tsar Leaders in the
Russian Civil War
against the Reds
- Believed Communism had
weakened Russia and
expected Hitler to soon
succeed
- 'If Hitler invaded Hell, I would at least make
a favourable reference to the Devil in the
House of COmmons'
- Put ideology aside
when Hitler invaded
the USSR in June, 1941
- Called Communism a
'cancer' and a 'foul
baboonery'
- Similarities
- 4th Moscow Conference-
Both agree on the
'percentages agreement'
where it is decided GB
gets 90% of Greece and
USSR gets 90% of Poland
- Also called the 'naughty' document
- Churchill's search for an
ally
- American
support
uncertain in
1941
- Churchill desperately needed
support and had fought the war
against Germany for a year
alone
- 'Operation
Unthinkable',
1945
- To reclaim eastern
Germany and
Poland from Stalin
- Preventing Soviet expansion
- Fight for
attention