Strange Bedfellows: Churchill and Stalin s Uneasy Alliance in World War II
The alliance that defeated the Nazis in World War II brought truth to the old adage, ’The enemy of my enemy is my friend.’
Here s What You Need to Know: Though British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and Soviet Premiere Josef Stalin were suspicious of one another, they were compelled to cooperate early in World War II.
In the Grand Alliance volume of Winston S. Churchill’s memoirs of World War II, the British prime minister lambasted Soviet Premier Josef Stalin and his inept government for failing to anticipate Operation Barbarossa, the Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union, which began on June 22, 1941.