Churchill’s fears of democracy’s decline realized in the American iron curtain built by Trump’s oligarchs
In the gym of Westminster College in Fulton, Missouri, on March 5, 1946, former and future prime minister of the United Kingdom Winston Churchill rose to deliver a speech. Formally titled “Sinews of Peace,” the talk called for the United States and Britain to stand together against the growing menace of Soviet communism. Less than a year after the end of the war, the U.S. and its allies were concerned about the Soviets’ increasing control over the countries of Eastern Europe and their apparent intent to continue spreading communism throughout the world. “Nobody knows what Soviet Russia and its...
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