Former UN Deputy Secretary-General Ordzhonikidze: Churchill’s speech has become a proposition for the fight against Russia

MOSCOW, March 5 — RIA News. British Prime Minister Winston Churchill’s speech at Fulton became a “trigger” for the subsequent escalation of tensions in Europe and served as an ideological presumption for the development of aggressive actions against the USSR and then his successor, the former Deputy Secretary of State. Russia and former UN Deputy Secretary-General Sergei Ordzhonikidze.

“The ideological and military-political line he put forward in his speech was further developed, causing tensions to rise in Europe. His speech became an ideological postulate for the development of all kinds of aggressive actions against our country.” said Ordzhonikidze.

The expert said that the USSR emerged from the Second World War as a powerful state that began to gain superpower features and had allies in Eastern Europe. This did not suit the West in any way, so the Cold War was instantly unleashed from a historical point of view: the United States and Britain turned first to hostile relations with the Soviet Union, and then to relations that acquired a military character. said confrontation.

“The establishment of the NATO bloc was proof that such a conflict was meant in his speech. Churchill’s trigger worked. The development of the situation after this speech – the establishment of the NATO bloc, the construction of the military structure of the alliance, then how is the proposal of the Soviet Union to enter there. Its anti-war orientation is confirmed. The establishment of the Warsaw Pact in 1955 is the Soviet Union’s response to the founding of NATO in 1949.

On March 5, 1946, Churchill gave the famous speech that started the Cold War. Churchill later proclaimed that an “iron curtain” had fallen over Europe and that the United States had to stand up for the interests of the entire English-speaking world.