to what extent was winston churchill's "Iron Curtain Speech" accurate?
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It was 100%accurate.\nWinston Churchill was the greatest statesman of the 20th century
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Actually, it was:\n\nNever give in. Never give in. Never, never, never, never -- in nothing, great or small, large or petty -- never give in, except to convictions of honour and good sense. Never yield to force. Never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy.\n\nWinston Churchill
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I remember that disgraceful persecution of David Irving - an honest, unprejudiced, truth-telling man.  The Jews nailed him - he even had a Jewish judge deciding the case.\nRead his book about WW11 "Churchill's War" - it's straight reporting too.\nBy the way, the best book on the so-called Holocaust is "The Great Hoax", written about 20 years ago by a completely unprejudiced American who researched the subject for 10 years and wrote a very thick book - by far the most complete examination of the topic.  His conclusion was that a maximum of 150,000 Jews were killed in the whole of Europe during the Hitler time, in one way or another - certainly not by gassing.  Unfortunately I can't remember his name.  Can anyone remind me and say if this book can still be obtained : it's high time this whole thing was sorted out, don't you think?
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nostradamus is considered to be quite accurate. according to historians he foresighted 911, london bombing, and reign of hitler
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Actually, no.\n\nThe original quote came from Ronald Reagan, and it was in THIS context: "General Secretary Gorbachev, if you seek peace, if you seek prosperity for the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, if you seek liberalization: Come here to this gate! Mr. Gorbachev, open this gate! Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!"\n\nHe was speaking about the Berlin wall, which was NOT keeping ILLEGAL immigrants from invading a country, but a wall that was built up to keep A COUNTRY and FAMILIES seperated.\n\nImagine, one day, you walk out of your house, walk down a block and go to your mother's house. All is fine.\n\nImagine, then, that a week later, not only can you not walk down the street to your mother's house, cause there is a brick wall seperating you, but you can NOT call her, see her, talk to her, NOTHING. If she dies, you cannot attend her funeral. If you have a child, she cannot see her grandbaby.\n\nImagine.\n\nNow, go and come into the United States of America LEGALLY, like THOUSANDs of others have for hundreds of years.
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Is this the speech you are referring to? Oct 1995/\n\nhttp://www.cnn.com/ALLPOLITICS/1996/news/9607/15/ads.jackson/index.shtml
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Churchill (UK), Rosevelt (USA) and Stalin (Soviet Union)
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This is a further part of socialist engineering, as I have said many times before we are heading for a totalitarian state  by stealth New Labours favourite tactic. People in the UK should remember Thomas Jefferson's famous words,"Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty!"and "The issue to-day is the same as it has been throughout all history,whether man shall be allowed to govern himself or be ruled by a small elite".
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I would argue that it wasn't.  But it certainly was more theoretical.  Marx version never had to be tested in the trenches of reality.  Whenever communism has been lived out (Leninism, Maoism, etc), it has always led to disaster: either mass poverty or mass violence, or a combination of both.  Marx' approach has never had to be tested, since one can always claim that it was the fault of lenin or Stalin or Mao or whoever that it didn't work.  The reality is that it never really works.
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That is a quote from Mark Twain. The full text of that quote is as follows:\n\n"In religion and politics people's beliefs and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second-hand, and without examination, from authorities who have not themselves examined the questions at issue but have taken them at second-hand from other non-examiners, whose opinions about them were not worth a brass farthing."\n\nI think it holds true it most cases.
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The Iron Curtain as we knew it is gone.\n\nAnd yes, there still are large differences between North and South in the USA.
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Interesting query. Our prime minister, Winston Churchill, and your President Roosevelt had a few things in common. Roosevelt was born in New York. Churchills grandfather (Leonard Jerome) was also born there. \nThey shared some aspirations for the future of their countries, and they both played a substantial role in the creation of the welfare state that has become the nanny state. I hasten to add I can only comment on the british benefits system regarding the nanny state.\n\nWinston Churchill procrastinated a great deal whereas Roosevelt was a little more concise and to the point. Take these two quotes for example -\n\nChurchill: 'Every day you may make progress. Every step may be fruitful. Yet there will stretch out before you an ever-ascending, ever-improving path. You know you will never get to the end ofthe journey. But this, sofar from discouraging, only adds to the joy and glory of the climb'\n\nRoosevelt: 'It is common sense to take a method and try it: if it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.\n\nAnd -\n\nChurchill: It's not enough that we do our best; sometimes we have to do what's required.\n\nRoosevelt: Be sincere; be brief; be seated.\n\nI have digressed from your question however. On the whole I don'r agree with Churchill's statement, at least not if it is applied to today's society. It nay have been more fitting during the war when America was drawn closer (perhaps reluctantly) to Europe and a certain comradeship was a way of life. Sometimes a little more than comradeship between the G.I's and our land girls!!\nI feel that the main difference between our homelands is our pride in our respective coumtries and the reasons for it.\nI don't feel proud to be british any more. The days of 'pulling together' are long gone. It's 'all for one and one for all' nowadays. There has been a mass migration going on in the UK for a few years. Anyone that is selling a property is moving out to France, Spain, etc. The rich get richer and the poor get poorer. There are people being murdered in villages for a few pence from their purses. Yob culture rules and teenagers with hoods are to be avoided. Sure, this kind of behaviour has always gone on, but mainly prevalent in big towns in the past. \nOur taxes are crippling. People who've worked hard all their lives are living well below the poverty line. They have saved for their pension only to be told that it doesn't exist. And as I mentioned earlier, too many citizens sit back and accept the ample hand-outs the government provides in exchange for votes.\n\nBritain has also lost it's sense of humour.To quote Roosevelt again -\n\n'I sometimes think that the saving grace of America lies in the fact that the overwhelming majority of Americans are possessed of two great qualities - a sense of humour and a sense of proportion'\n\nI cannot comment on the differences in the American way of life as I've not lived there but I get the feeling you're all still proud of your origins and wouldn't swap your nationality for all the tea in China. I'd like to hear your views on that.\n\nWhen I joined the march in London against the war I saw an amusing placard being held up by a young girl proclaiming 'The only Bush I trust is my own. That tickled me but also reminded we're probably not the only country with a corrupt government. \n\nI feel there will always be a bond between the States and the United Kingdom - I hope so. But I also feel that America looks after it's countrymenin a more constructive way than our government. You are encouraged to study, work, and save towqrds a better future. And if you live your life that way you get results. We don't.\n\nThat said, I will finish on a quote by Franklin D. Roosevelt in a letter to Winston Churchill.\n\n'It is fun to be in the same decade with you'\n\nAh. comradeship!
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http://www.factmonster.com/ce6/history/A0849133.html\n\nhttp://www.pearlfilms.com/totalitarian.htm\n\n Here are a couple links that should help you out.
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Bush's edge was 2.5 percent, smaller than Wooddrow Wilson's pathetic 1916 margin of 3.2 percent. Bu$h, Cheney and all the cronies called it a mandate. Neocons on TV called it a mandate. In 1936 FDR had a mandate. In 1956 Eisenhower had a mandate, In 1964 Johnson had a mandate, 1972 Nixon had a mandate. In 1996 Clinton had a mandate, he beat Dole by 8.5 percent. the numbers you need are at www.secretaryofstate.gov.
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hell no! he is an evil liar....."those who are willing to give up freedom for security, will end up with neither"\n winston churchill
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I believe there is an intrinsic connection between the UK, through people like Winston Churchill and others throughout history that gives  America, Canada, New Zealand, Australia , Scotland, Ireland, Wales and England an evolution towards justice and a sense of fair play.  It is NOT an achieved goal but a process that we can judge ourselves objectively and try to get better long into the future.
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It wasn't. The USSR lied about having missles in Cuba aimed at the  United States. We found out about it from spy photos and told the Russians to remove them or we'd nuke them until they glowed.\n\nThey blinked first and removed the missles.