READING: Winston S. Churchill on Leon Trotsky, by @delong braddelong.substack.com/p/reading-wins…
From 1937, from Winston Churchill's book _Great Contemporaries_:
"When the usurper and tyrant is reduced to literary controversy, when the Communist instead of bombs produces effusions for... 1/
From 1937, from Winston Churchill's book _Great Contemporaries_:
"When the usurper and tyrant is reduced to literary controversy, when the Communist instead of bombs produces effusions for... 1/
... the capitalist Press, when the refugee War Lord fights his battles over again, and the discharged executioner becomes chatty and garrulous at his fireside, we may rejoice in the signs that better days are come.
I have before me an article that Leon Trotsky alias... 2/
I have before me an article that Leon Trotsky alias... 2/
...Bronstein1 has recently contributed to John o’ London’s Weekly2 in which he deals with my descriptions of Lenin, with the Allied Intervention in Russia, with Lord Birkenhead and other suggestive topics. He has written this article from his exile in Turkey while... 3/
...supplicating England, France and Germany to admit him to the civilizations it has been—and still is—the object of his life to destroy.
Russia—his own Red Russia—the Russia he had framed and fashioned to his heart’s desire regardless of suffering to others or hazard to... 4/
Russia—his own Red Russia—the Russia he had framed and fashioned to his heart’s desire regardless of suffering to others or hazard to... 4/
...himself—has cast him out. All his scheming, all his daring, all his writing, all his harangues, all his atrocities, all his achievements, have led only to this—that another ‘comrade,’ his subordinate in revolutionary rank, his inferior in wit, though not perhaps in... 5/
...crime, rules in his stead, while he, the once triumphant Trotsky whose frown meted death to thousands, sits disconsolate—a skin of malice stranded for a time on the shores of the Black Sea3 and now washed up in the Gulf of Mexico... 6/END
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