Winston Churchill Quotes
Russia is like a hungry wolf let loose among the sheep. But after the feasting comes the digestion period. Russia will not be able to digest them all.
Churchill turned out to be right albeit the digestion period took almost 50 years.
Winston Churchill, 1874-1965, British Prime Minister (Conservative), Statement to French President Charles De Gaulle who was concerned that Russia could dominate Eastern Europe after World War II, Quoted by John Lukacs, Lecture, The Free Library of Philadelphia, September 20, 2001
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1st Baron & 1st Marquis Curzon of Kedleston
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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.
