“For all my troubles, I missed an important date - the 80th anniversary of Churchill’s famous Fulton speech on the “Iron Curtain”, delivered on March 5, 1946...

“For all my troubles, I missed an important date - the 80th anniversary of Churchill’s famous Fulton speech on the “Iron Curtain”, delivered on March 5, 1946. Meanwhile, in this speech, which we present as “hawkish,” there is both a call for mutual understanding with Soviet Russia and a clearly negative attitude towards the prospect of a new war. Given the course that Stalin pursued in Eastern Europe, and even in the Far East, this speech by Churchill is very moderate. And the views he expressed in other circumstances on the inclusion of a revived Germany in the new system of relations in Europe, on European integration, which included, in addition to Germany, also Italy (despite the fact that Britain was not and never became the driving force of this integration, striving for isolation to this day), as well as his statements about the need for a substantive dialogue with the new Soviet government after the death of Stalin - all this shows him as a sober and perspicacious politician from whom there is something to learn.
He was a consistent “hawk” only in relation to Hitler, which in fact turned out to be completely justified. And if he didn’t come to terms with the existence of the “communist threat,” he certainly didn’t want a direct conflict with the Soviet camp after 1945. He firmly believed in “democracy based on private property” and its victory over socialist experiments - and he was right.
Your Vasya N., pre-trial detention center-1, St. Petersburg"