Rich wrote:Winston Churchill was one of Russia's great supporters.
Say what ?
Stalins soviet union could not find a single ally in the west against Nazi Germany, including not the UK.
In the end they tried to contain Nazi Germany, which they knew was planning on attacking them, by doing a secret treaty with them, splitting Poland in half, west half goes to Nazi Germany, east half goes to Russia.
Which nowadays is the hook why certain polish politicians claim that the soviet union was 50% guilty of starting WW2, or even 100% guilty. Even if the soviet union didnt actually start the war, and did its best to avoid the war beforehand, and really just tried to defend itself best they could.
IMHO the soviet union should have followed this treaty word by word and taken over half of Poland as the treaty said, and then prepared the defenses, and then given it all back immediately to Poland once Germany had lost the war. That would have absolutely minimized the grief poles have against Russia nowadays.
Then again this is a game you just cannot win. The west plain and simple wants Russia as the enemy, no matter what Russia does. Anything nice is quickly forgotten. Anything bad is emphasized and the reasons why the bad thing happened suppressed. And if there is no thread, they make one up.
So, whatever.
Either way Churchill was never a supporter of Russia. The whole idea is absurd. Churchill found himself forced to be on the same side as the soviet union, against his will.
Russia has been consistently the enemy of the west since 1840, even back when the tzar was in power. The problem the west has with Russia simply that its too strong and too independent. Thats all.
The UK empire wanted to rule the world, the US empire wants to rule the world, and I hope there wont be a China or India empire next because all empires just suck for everyone but a very small minority of people. Either way empires dont like strong foes that they cant control.
Thats why Russia is the enemy and why China is the enemy and why they're already very busy making India the enemy as well.
There's class warfare, all right, but it's my class, the rich class, that's making war, and we're winning. - Warren Buffett