Speech on hitler as invasion of the u s s r by winston s churchill. Uh, the nazi regime is indistinguishable from the worst features of communism. It is devoid of all theme in principle, except appetite in racial domination. It excels all forms of human wickedness in the efficiency of its cruelty in ferocious aggression. No one has been a more consistent opponent of communism than I have for the last twenty five years. I will unsay, no word that I have spoken about it, but all this fades away before the spectacle which is now unfolding. The past with its crimes, its follies, and its tragedies, flashes away. I see the russian soldiers standing on the threshold of their native land, guarding the fields which their fathers have killed from time immemorial. I see them guarding their homes where mothers in wives pray. Ah, yes, for there are times when all pray for the safety of their loved ones, the return of the breadwinner of their champion of their protector. I see the ten thousand villages of russia where the means of existence is wrong, so hardly from the soil, but where there are still primordial human joys where maidens laugh in children play, I see advancing upon all this in hideous onslaught, the nazi war machine with its clanking heel, clicking dandified prussian officers. IT's crafty expert agents fresh from the cowing in tieing down of a dozen countries. I see also the dull, drilled, docile, brutish masses of the hun soldiery plotting on like a swarm of crawling locusts. I see the german bombers in fighters in the sky, still smarting from many a british whipping, delighted to find what they believe is it easier and assay for prey behind all this glare? Behind all this storm? I see that small group of villainous men who planned, organized, and launched this cataract of horrors upon mankind. I have to declare the decision of his majesty is government, and I feel sure it is a decision in which the great dominion will, in due course, concur for we must speed out now at once without a day's delay. I have to make the declaration, but can you doubt what our policy will be? We have, but one aim in one single irrevocable purpose, we are resolved to destroy hitler in every vestige of the nazi regime. From this, nothing will turn us nothing. We will never play. We will never negotiate with hitler or any of the game. We shall fight him by land. We shall fight him by sea. We shall fight him in the air until with god's help, we have rid the earth of his shadow in liberated its peoples from his yoke. Any man or state who fights on against nazi dome will have our aid. Any man or state who marches with hitler is our foe. That is our policy in, that is our declaration. It follows, therefore, that we shall give whatever help we can to russia in the russian people. We shall appeal to all our friends and allies in every part of the world to take the same course in, pursue it as we shall faithfully, instead vastly to the end. Uh, this is no class war, but a war in which the whole british empire in commonwealth of nations is engaged without distinction of race, creed, or party. It is not for me to speak of the action of the united states, but this I will say, if hitler imagines that this attack on soviet russia will cause the slightest divergence of ames, or slackening of effort in the great democracies who are resolved upon his doom, he is woefully mistaken. On the contrary, we shall be fortified and encouraged in our efforts to rescue mankind from his tire and e we shall be strengthened and not weakened in determination and in resources. This is no time to moralise on the follies of countries in governments which have allowed themselves to be struck down one by one, when by united action, they could have saved themselves and save the world from this catastrophe. But when I spoke a few minutes ago of hitler's bloodlust in the hateful appetites which have impelled or lured him on his russian adventure, I said there was one deeper motive behind his outrage. He wishes to destroy the russian power because he hopes that if he succeeds in this, he will be able to bring back the main strength of his army, an air force from the east in her lit upon this island, which he knows he must conquer or suffer the penalty of his crimes. His invasion of russia is no more than a prelude to an attempted invasion of the british isles. He hopes no doubt that all this may be accomplished before the winter comes in that he can overwhelm great britain before the fleet in air power of the united states may intervene. He hopes that he may once again repeat upon a greater scale than ever before. That process of destroying his enemies one by one by which he has so long thrived in prospered in that, then the scene will be clear for the final act, without which all his conquests would be in vain, namely the subjugation of the western hemisphere, to his will, into his system. The russian danger is therefore, our danger in the danger of the united states, just as the cause of any russian fighting for his hearth in home is the cause of free men and free peoples in every quarter of the globe. Let us learn the lessons already taught by such cruel experience. Let us redouble our exertions and strike with united strength while life in power remain.
