How Winston Churchill sold the American population at the beginning of the Cold War: After the victory in the Second World War, the capitalist class of the United States saw the Soviet Union as a threat, and the arms manufacturers already began to salivate at the thought of a cold war with the Soviet Union in order to continue to profit from the arms industry. the problem? Joseph Stalin and the Soviet Union were popular in the United States after the Soviet Union's central role in defeating Nazi Germany, and the sacrifice of 27 million Soviet lives. In August 1945, 54% of Americans trusted the Soviet Union to cooperate with the United States. Americans referred to Stalin as "Uncle Joe" and had fond memories of his cooperation with President Franklin Delano Roosevelt during the war. The expanding security state and elites of the USA knew that the mediocrity that was Harry Truman could not convince the American people that they should now see the Soviet Union and Joseph Stalin as an enemy, even Harry Truman himself knew this. The answer was to roll in Winston Churchill, who was resoundingly defeated in the 1945 British general election with the arrival of the first Labor government of Clement Attlee. As the British Empire crumbled from bankruptcy and colonial rebellion against British rule, the American leadership recognized that Winston Churchill was more respected than Truman to sell the American population on a conflict with the Soviet Union. On March 5, 1945, Harry Truman brought Winston Churchill on stage in Fulton, Missouri, for a speech to be broadcast to the nation. It was Churchill's 'Iron Curtain' speech, which cast the Soviet Union as a growing threat, abandoning any goodwill from the joint victory in World War II and any hope of peaceful cooperation.

How Winston Churchill sold the American population at the beginning of the Cold War: After the victory in the Second World War, the capitalist class of the United States saw the Soviet Union as a threat, and the arms manufacturers already began to salivate at the thought of a cold war with the Soviet Union in order to continue to profit from the arms industry. the problem? Joseph Stalin and the Soviet Union were popular in the United States after the Soviet Union's central role in defeating Nazi Germany, and the sacrifice of 27 million Soviet lives. In August 1945, 54% of Americans trusted the Soviet Union to cooperate with the United States. Americans referred to Stalin as "Uncle Joe" and had fond memories of his cooperation with President Franklin Delano Roosevelt during the war. The expanding security state and elites of the USA knew that the mediocrity that was Harry Truman could not convince the American people that they should now see the Soviet Union and Joseph Stalin as an enemy, even Harry Truman himself knew this. The answer was to roll in Winston Churchill, who was resoundingly defeated in the 1945 British general election with the arrival of the first Labor government of Clement Attlee. As the British Empire crumbled from bankruptcy and colonial rebellion against British rule, the American leadership recognized that Winston Churchill was more respected than Truman to sell the American population on a conflict with the Soviet Union. On March 5, 1945, Harry Truman brought Winston Churchill on stage in Fulton, Missouri, for a speech to be broadcast to the nation. It was Churchill's 'Iron Curtain' speech, which cast the Soviet Union as a growing threat, abandoning any goodwill from the joint victory in World War II and any hope of peaceful cooperation.