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Still, if you will not fight for the right when you can easily win without bloodshed; if you will not fight when your victory will be sure and not too costly; you may come to the moment when you will have to fight with all the odds against you and only a precarious chance of survival. There may even be a worse case. You may have to fight when there is no hope of victory, because it is better to perish than to live as slaves.
Забавно было прочитать высказывание Черчилля о том,что лучше смерть, чем жизнь в рабстве.Он не подумал,что тем самым он оправдывает самоубийство своего злейшего врага – А.Гитлера.Вообще должен сказать.что с этим аристократом слишком носятся.К декабрю 1940года А.Гитлер окончательно загнал Черчилля в угол,к сожалению не разгромив ранее,под Дюнкерком, английскую группировку(надеялся на мир с Англией,который был невозможен из-за старого поджигателя войны Черчилля. И вот в декабре указанного года Черчилль пишет отдыхавшему на океане Рузвельту истерически-алармистское письмо со знаком SOS!, прося последнего о военной помощи: люди есть,а воевать нечем.Позднее в таком же положении оказался другой “великий”, Сталин,также согласившийся на подачки Рузвельта.А куда деваться?Гитлер,это не тот человек,от которого можно было отмахнуться в одиночку.Отсюда и появились “The Grand Alliance”, “Арсенал дамократии” и другие имперские штучки,инспирированные Рузвельтом. Он “рулил” в той войне.Без Рузвельта эти “великие” -ничто; не было бы никакой “великой победы над фашизмом”.И ещё – это трусливое сокрытие полного текста книги Черчилля.В общем,впечатление от книги – ниже среднего.(Детали см. в книге David’a Irving’a: Hitler’s War and War Path(1977-98).No thanks!
Via Google Translate: It was amusing to read Churchill’s statement that would rather die than live in slavery. He did not think that by doing so he justifies suicide of his worst enemy – Adolf Hitler. In general, I must say. that this nobleman is too worn. By December 1940 Adolf Hitler finally driven into the corner of Churchill, unfortunately not defeated earlier at Dunkirk, the British group (hoped for peace with England, which was impossible because of the old warmonger Churchill. And in December of that year, Churchill says resting on the ocean Roosevelt hysterically – alarmist letter signed SOS!, asking for military assistance to the latter: the people there, and there is nothing to fight. Later in the same position was another “great”, Stalin, and Roosevelt agreed to on handouts. Where to go? Hitler is not the person from whom it was possible to dismiss odinochku.Otsyuda and appeared “The Grand Alliance”, “Arsenal damokratii” and other imperial pieces inspired by Roosevelt. He “taxied” in the war. Without Roosevelt, these “great” – nothing, there would be no “great victory over fascism.” And yet – it is cowardly hiding the full text of the book Churchill. In general, the impression of the book – below average. (see details in the book David’a Irving’a: Hitler’s War and War Path (1977-98)