140 years ago, 30 November 1874, born Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill. Churchill was descended from the aristocratic family of the Dukes of Marlborough and, according to the British, became one of the most prominent statesmen of Great Britain. This was confirmed by the 2002 survey of the year, when, according to the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), Winston Churchill was named the greatest Briton in stories. Winston Churchill is certainly one of the most revered figures in the West. In Europe, he is called the “knight of democracy” and “the greatest leader of the 20th century.” Indeed, the head of the Admiralty, Chancellor of the Treasury, Secretary of Defense, Prime Minister of Great Britain (1940-1945 and 1951-1955), one of the Big Three participants, herald of the Cold War, as well as a talented journalist, writer and Nobel Prize winner in literature - Sir Winston Churchill was an outstanding personality and at the same time one of the most serious enemies of the Russian people and the Russian civilization.
Churchill's father belonged to the conservative political elite. Churchill began his career on the military ladder, he served in Cuba, British India and Sudan. At the same time, he proved himself to be a talented military journalist, covering the events of the uprising against the Spaniards in Cuba, the struggle against the Pashtuns in British India, and the suppression of the Mahdist uprising in Sudan. In some cases, Churchill showed unconditional personal courage. At the time of his resignation, Churchill received recognition as a writer and journalist, his book about the Sudanese campaign - “War on the River” became a bestseller.
This allowed him to start a political career. In 1899, Churchill ran for parliament from the Conservative Party, but failed. Churchill went to South Africa as a war correspondent, where the Anglo-Boer War began. The armored train on which Churchill rode was ambushed by the Boers. Churchill here again showed himself to be a brave man, having volunteered to clear the paths which were littered with stones. Churchill and several dozen soldiers were captured. The young journalist fled from the prison camp and successfully made his way to his. This escape made him famous. In the 1900 year, in the 26 years, Churchill first became a member of the Conservative Party in the House of Commons (he later went over to the liberals). Churchill was attracted to the political game, he had long sought power. “Power,” the politician wrote, “is a drug. Who tried it at least once - poisoned forever. "
In the future, Churchill's career went on increasing: he consistently held the posts of Deputy Minister for Colonial Affairs (he worked on the constitution for the defeated Boers), Minister for Trade and Industry, and Minister of the Interior. It must be said that the Home Office was considered one of the three most important government agencies in England. On the eve of World War I, Churchill took over as First Lord of the Admiralty. The British fleet, which has always been one of the most important instruments of British foreign policy, underwent one of the largest modernizations in its history, so Churchill undoubtedly left the post of Secretary of the Interior. During this period, the main headquarters of the Navy, aviation, new types of warships were designed and laid down (like the very successful Queen Elizabeth class dreadnoughts). The fleet began to switch from coal to liquid fuel. For this, Churchill initiated the allocation of funds for the acquisition of a controlling interest in the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company, which had far-reaching strategic consequences. The Persian Gulf and Persia for a long time became a region of strategic interests of the Anglo-Saxons.
During the First World War, Churchill initiated the defense of Antwerp, when the Belgian government already wanted to leave the city. It was not possible to keep the city, but many noted that this operation allowed to keep Kale and Dunkirk. As chairman of the “Land Ships Commission,” Churchill took part in the creation of the first tanks and gave way to the armored forces. The unsuccessful Dardanelles operation, of which Churchill was one of the initiators, dealt a blow to his career. Churchill claimed responsibility for the failure by resigning and went to the Western Front as a battalion commander.
In 1917, he returned to big politics, headed the Ministry of Weapons, then became Minister of War and Minister of Aviation. During this period, Churchill became one of the main initiators of the Entente's intervention in Soviet Russia. In his opinion, the West was supposed to "strangle Bolshevism in the cradle." Due to Churchill's hatred of the Soviet state, British troops were withdrawn from Russia only in 1920 year.
Later, Churchill continued to occupy important posts: he was appointed minister for colonies, in 1924 he occupied the second most important position in the state - the Chancellor of the Treasury (Minister of Finance). Then there was a certain decline in his political career, in 1930-ies Churchill was more engaged in literary activity. The British politician was an opponent of London’s course on “appeasing Hitler”. When "Hitler's policy of appeasement" completely collapsed, Churchill's finest hour came. During the Second World War, he became Minister of Defense and the head of government, a member of the "Big Three". Churchill, along with Roosevelt and Stalin in these years, decided the fate of the whole world. He had a serious impact on the course of the Second World War, delaying the opening of the Second Front in Europe for three years!
After losing the election in July 1945, Churchill returned to literary activity again. He worked on his memoirs - "The Second World War." Churchill is considered one of the main initiators of the beginning of the so-called. Cold War "(some experts call it the Third World War, which ended in defeat and the collapse of the Soviet Union and the socialist bloc). It was Churchill who insisted on the start of Operation Unthinkable as early as 1945 — in early July 1945, British forces, the United States, the remnants of the Wehrmacht (they were not dismissed and kept ready), and possibly Turkey, should have hit the Soviet army. Only the fear of the might of Stalinist USSR and the Soviet army, which at first with fierce battles retreated to Leningrad, Moscow and Stalingrad, and then repulsed lost lands and liberated Europe, stormed Berlin, kept the leaders of the United States and Britain from the immediate start of a new global war. It was Churchill at 5 in March 1946 at Westminster College in Fulton that delivered the speech, which they consider to be the starting point of the Cold War. A little later - September 19, giving a speech at the University of Zurich, Churchill called on former opponents - Germany, France and England to reconciliation and the establishment of the "United States of Europe". As a result, the course of Adolf Hitler to create a united Europe and the confrontation with the Russian civilization was continued.
In 1947, Winston Churchill urged The United States is launching a nuclear strike on the USSR to win the Cold War. A note from one of the FBI agents says that Churchill called on Republican Senator Stiles Bridges to convince US President Harry Truman to launch an atomic war in order to destroy the Kremlin and turn the USSR into an "easy problem." The FBI documents show that Churchill hated the USSR so much that he was ready to make enormous civilian casualties.
In 1951, Churchill became the head of the British government again, although he was already 76 years old and was not allowed to do any good health. In 1953, Churchill became a knight, and he was awarded the Nobel Prize in literature. In 1955, Churchill resigned for health reasons.
Convinced enemy of Russia
Thus, Churchill was a gifted and great statesman, but we must remember that this was a staunch enemy of our Motherland. He hated not only Soviet power and communism, but also Russia as such.
Churchill became one of the main organizers of the intervention of the Western powers against Russia during the Civil War. At the same time, Churchill pushed Germany to invade Soviet Russia, cynically saying: “Let the Huns kill the Bolsheviks”. No wonder Lenin defined Churchill - "the greatest hater of Soviet Russia." England during this period encouraged the disintegration of Russia into separatist "states", assisted various separatist and white nationalists (and in the south to the Basmachis), kindled the fire of the Civil War in the country, and landed assault forces in the zones of their "vital interests". By February, 1919, England had a military contingent of 44 thousand bayonets in Russia. The British donated 60 million pounds to the white Volunteer Army, and armed Kolchak’s army. Churchill explained such generosity quite frankly: "It would be a mistake to think that during this year we fought for the Russian White Guards, on the contrary, the Russian White Guards fought for our affairs."
This invasion claimed thousands of lives and resulted in material losses of billions of gold rubles. The British invaders brought a lot of grief to the Russian land. They try not to disclose information about this in order not to spoil relations with Western "partners". Wherever there were Western invaders, terror, robbery and violence reigned. Only the heroic struggle of the Russian people against the invaders and their various puppets - from whites to nationalists and Basmachs, then saved Russia from dismemberment and civilizational catastrophe. The enemies of the Russian people were defeated and were forced to get out, postponing plans to dismember Russia into spheres of influence and dependent state formations for the future.
In 1920-ies, Churchill joined the champion of "united Europe", the core of which should have been Britain, Germany, France and Italy. His ideas then echoed the thoughts of Adolf Hitler, who advocated a close alliance with England and Italy. At the same time, Churchill supported the fascist regime of Benito Mussolini. The active struggle against the Communists brought Churchill closer to Mussolini. Initially, Churchill paid close attention to the "rising star" of the great European policy - Hitler. Later, Churchill was opposed to the course of the British government to "appease Hitler," but he believed that it was necessary to turn Germany into the main enemy of Soviet Russia.
Stalin was well aware of Churchill’s hatred of Russia and the difficulties of England after the defeat of France, therefore he was very critical of his reports about the impending attack of Hitler's Germany on the Soviet Union. For England, in her position (after the defeat of France), the war of Germany with the USSR was the ideal option. Churchill was the most interested man in the world in Germany attacking the USSR. After the fall of France, the German submarines intensified on sea communications, over the island of England, connected with the whole world and their colonies and dominions by the closest trade ties, the threat of a naval blockade. A blockade led to a sharp industrial (raw) trade and financial crisis. Moreover, the German military machine, which then seemed invincible, was actively preparing for a landing operation in the British Isles. London was gripped by fear. How long can Britain stand up to the German army? In this situation, 25 June 1940, Churchill and wrote a letter to Stalin. Then Churchill wrote a few more letters to Stalin. But they were all written at a critical moment for England.
The most famous letter was written by Churchill 19 on April 1941. However, it is necessary to pay attention to the position of England at this moment. German troops on the eve of captured Belgrade, Yugoslavia surrendered, part of Rommel went to the borders of Egypt. Greece was on the eve of surrender, British troops in Greece were in a dangerous position. The question was whether they could be evacuated or not. The bombing of England by German aircraft intensified. And in this situation, Churchill "warns" Stalin about Hitler’s close attack on the USSR.
In addition, Moscow quite rationally raised the question of the sources of information in London. The British could not foresee the rout of France and almost lost their expeditionary forces. The question arose why the British missed the defeat of the Anglo-French forces. Churchill wrote a letter to Stalin in April 1941 of the year, and a month later the German troops carried out a brilliant landing operation to capture Crete. Why did British intelligence, they might have thought in Moscow, know about the plans of Germany’s attack on the USSR, but could not foil the enemy’s plans against the British forces?
In fact, these were provocations aimed at pushing Germany from the USSR. Churchill did not "warn" the USSR, and by default offered to strike in Germany. They say that the moment is convenient - Hitler is bound by the struggle against England, you can open a second front and defeat the Third Reich. However, Stalin did not fall for these provocations. Otherwise, the USSR would have looked in the face of the entire world community as an aggressor who attacked Germany.
Churchill’s actions during World War II, when England was forced to ally with the USSR, confirmed its reputation as an enemy of Russia. The head of Britain promised Stalin to open a second front in the winter of 1941 of the year. However, instead of a real operation, he made an adventurous disembarkation near the port of Dieppe in the north of France in August 1942. German forces easily defeated poorly trained troops. The operation cost the Canadians and the British about 4 thousand dead and captured soldiers. After sacrificing several thousand people, Churchill was able to persuade Stalin alone to fight Hitler. Like, the operation is very difficult and difficult to prepare.
Behind Russia, London continued to weave spider webs. The British Prime Minister tried to destroy the outlined mutual understanding between Stalin and Roosevelt. Churchill dreamed of opening the Balkan front to cut off Soviet troops from Central Europe. There was another battle for Stalingrad and the Caucasus, when Churchill, in his memorandum to the members of the British military cabinet, noted: “All my thoughts are directed primarily to Europe, as the ancestor of modern nations and civilization. It would have been a terrible disaster if Russian barbarism had destroyed the culture and independence of the ancient European states. ”
Even during the war with Germany, the Anglo-Saxons were working on the issue of collusion with Germany (for this purpose they planned to eliminate Hitler and reach an agreement with his successors). Germany was to dissolve the Western Front and turn all forces against the USSR. The Allies landed in France, the Germans gave them a corridor to the Eastern Front, so that the Allied forces occupied most of Europe. In May 1945, Churchill gave a secret order to the Joint Military Planning Planning Headquarters to prepare a plan of war with the Soviet Union. 22 May 1945, the Unthinkable Plan was prepared. With the first surprise attack, the Allies planned to destroy the Soviet troops in Germany. The operation was supposed to take half a million army, which were to support the remnants of the Wehrmacht. For this, even before the end of the war, when the Germans surrendered to the masses, they did not dissolve from the formation, but together with the officers were kept in camps. BUT weapon stored in order to distribute to the Germans at the right moment. It was planned that the war against the USSR would begin on July 1 of the year 1945. Churchill dreamed of defeating the weakened by the war, he believed, the Soviet Union, to subordinate it to the will of Britain and the United States.
However, all Churchill's plans — the invasion of the Allied forces in the Balkans, the separate peace with Hitler, and Operation Unthinkable — were never realized. Moscow crossed all the plans of the Anglo-Saxons. So, having learned in advance about the plans of the “allies, Stalin ordered the regrouping of the troops so that they were ready to repel the treacherous blow. 29 June 1945, the Soviet troops took more advantageous positions and prepared to repel the blow. Therefore, the Western allies had to abandon the offensive. In addition, the Soviet Union promulgated information about the unreleased parts of the Wehrmacht, and Churchill disbanded the German army.