Winston Churchill Quotes
I cannot forecast to you the action of Russia. It is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma; but perhaps there is a key. That key is Russian national interest.
Winston Churchill, 1874-1965, British Prime Minister (Conservative), BBC Radio Address, October 1, 1939
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Actually, his lack of understanding should not have been surprising. Politically and historically, there has been no more complex and arcane area of the world than Russia. See Winston Churchill's quote on that point--Quotation 597728. No one has ever understood the politics and complesities of Russia to any great degree. And the years durinbg which Pavlosky served the Russian Presidents wittnessed a rapid change in all aspects of Rissian life and society moreso than any times except the Russian Revolution and WWII. It will take 100 years or more before theye may be a deep understanding of this period of Russian hisory.
At the end of WWII there was much tension between Russia and the Anglo-American alliance. This plan was developed but never implemented. See {613195} for Prime Minister Winston Churchill’s description of the invasion idea.
This was an incredible prediction with no other world leader thinking it possible for decades until that is exactly what happened.
The term immediately grew very popular in Germany and soon made its way to the English-speaking countries as “realpolitic”.
- Born: November 30, 1874
- Died: January 24, 1965
- Nationality: English
- Profession: Statesman
Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill, KG, OM, CH, TD, DL, FRS, RA was the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1940 to 1945, during the Second World War, and again from 1951 to 1955. Apart from two years between 1922 and 1924, Churchill was a Member of Parliament (MP) from 1900 to 1964 and represented a total of five constituencies. Ideologically an economic liberal and imperialist, he was for most of his career a member of the Conservative Party, as leader from 1940 to 1955. He was a member of the Liberal Party from 1904 to 1924. Churchill was also well known for his military career and as a historian, painter and writer, and among his many awards was the Nobel Prize in Literature.
