The Second World War left a sad mark. But she is also known by the great politicians who, no doubt, made certain adjustments to her course. So, Winston Churchill, twice elected to the post of prime minister in the UK, had his own plans and calculations regarding the USSR.
A bit from Winston Churchill's biography
Before taking the post of Prime Minister of Great Britain, Churchill needed to strengthen his position in the world political arena. He was one of the few politicians who openly declared the danger of peace with Germany, for which the then Prime Minister Chamberlain stood for. It was the latter who pursued a policy of agreement with Hitler, which allowed Germany to get the Western and Central parts of Europe.
While arriving in the 1920s as Secretary of State, the monarchist W. Churchill was very worried about the arrival of Bolshevik power in Russia and repeatedly advocated military intervention at a time when the Civil War was raging on the territory of the country. With the formation of the USSR, the Secretary of State began to overestimate the role of the young continental state, feeling in his proletarian power a threat to Europe in general and England in particular.
Since 1936, Churchill increasingly worked with intelligence data on sentiments in Germany; he intuitively felt that a threat should be expected from the radical views of its leaders. His first actions as prime minister were the annulment of agreements on peaceful life with Germany, Churchill began to establish relations with countries such as the USSR and the USA.
According to Churchill, it was the USSR that was the main initiator of confusion in Hitler’s efforts to get Eastern Europe, which meant that only the Union could help defend the sovereignty of small European states. For the sake of this, the corresponding pact of Ribbentrop and Molotov was signed.
Churchill and Stalin
Even before the Second World War began, Churchill had secret correspondence with Stalin, in which he repeatedly spoke of possible danger in the person of Hitler, thereby trying to get a powerful ally - the USSR.
Stalin was very wary of Churchill. The Englishman knew this and tried to turn the tide; in numerous letters to Stalin in 1941, he said that a strong and tough leader had become the head of Russia, and therefore he considered it possible to create an excellent alliance of the two countries.
Although Churchill was an opponent of communism, he understood that without such an alliance he was unlikely to be able to save his country. Therefore, in May 1942, an alliance treaty was signed between Great Britain and the USSR.
