Sir Winston Churchill: Only Finland - superb, nay, sublime-in the jaws of peril - Finland shows what free men can do. The service rendered by Finland to mankind is magnificent. They have exposed, for all the world to see, the military incapacity of the Red Army and of the Red Air Force. Many illusions about Soviet Russia have been dispelled in these few fierce weeks of fighting in the Arctic Circle. Everyone can see how Communism rots the soul of a nation; how it makes it abject and hungry in peace, and proves it base and abominable in war. Source: “House of Many Mansions“ speech, 20 January 1940 More recordings of Sir Winston Churchill -
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