MARLBORO MAN. PART II.

…Among the less known, or completely unknown, details about Churchill’s life is the fact that his mother Jennie Jerome (1854-1921) was the daughter of an American millionaire Leonard Jerome, and she is claimed to have been Jewish by several reputable Israeli sources, thus bestowing Yiddishkeit on Winston Churchill himself, despite the disparaging accusation that his active role in the postponement of the Second Front in Europe in WWII until 1944 had allowed the Holocaust, which would not have happened, had the Second Front been opened in 1942. Thus putting upon both Churchill and FDR a large share of the blame for Hitler’s extermination of six million Jews, mainly during the period of 1943-1945, has become a very important part of the historical Jewish lore, alongside the bestowal of the honorary title of righteous Gentile upon Stalin for his role in saving the lives of some two million Jews of Eastern Poland, Belorussia and Ukraine by having moved them far to the East, thus out of harm’s way, right before Hitler’s eastward aggression in June 1941.

Churchill’s peculiar personal relationship with Stalin began indirectly in 1941 and directly in June 1942. An opinion, particularly prevalent among the American scholars, is that the relationship on Churchill’s part was a disingenuous “pact with the devil,” using his famous phrase that he would make such a pact with the devil if it helped him defeat Hitler. But in reality, Churchill had great respect for Stalin, and he believed that their personal relationship could greatly benefit the world if only “they could dine together at least once a week.” Stalin on his part reciprocated the respect element, which however did not prevent him from collecting some compromising evidence against Churchill (apparently regarding the latter’s sexual adventurism and indiscretion), which he intended to blackmail him with in their postwar negotiations about the future of Europe. But when Churchill lost the 1945 election to Clement Attlee, Stalin (who refused to believe that democracy may have had something to do with it) was convinced that Churchill “lost it deliberately,” so that he could no longer be blackmailed by Stalin.

With regard to the authorship of the Iron Curtain, this matter was covered in my entry Secret History Of The Iron Curtain, posted on my blog on March 1, 2011, explaining there that this was all Churchill’s idea. I do not believe, however, that Stalin was opposed to it too much. After all, had Europe remained whole, the United States could still have found a pretext for keeping her physical presence on the continent, but for Stalin it would have presented a much bigger challenge to keep the Soviet troops west of the USSR state border. Thus, even on the tricky question of the Iron Curtain, Stalin managed to triumph in the end too, resulting in a sprawling, albeit objectively temporary, Soviet global empire…