Winston Churchill, ”The Fourth Climacteric,” June 22, 1941

"On June 22, 1941, over 3 million German troops invade Russia in three parallel offensives, in what is the most powerful invasion force in history. Nineteen panzer divisions, 3,000 tanks, 2,500 aircraft, and 7,000 artillery pieces pour across a thousand-mile front as Hitler goes to war on a second front."

https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/germany-launches-operation-barbarossathe-invasion-of-russia

The invasion was dubbed "Operation Barbarossa." Churchill proclaims the invasion the "fourth climacteric" of the war.

As a vocal opponent of Russian communism, the Prime Minister nevertheless promises all possible support to the USSR in its fight against Hitler's war machine.

"We have but one aim and one single irrevocable purpose. We are resolved to destroy Hitler and every vestige of the Nazi regime. From this nothing will turn us. Nothing. We will never parley; we will never negotiate with Hitler or any of his gang. 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 and liberated its people from his yoke....

It follows, therefore, that we shall give whatever help we can to Russia and to the Russian people. We shall appeal to all our friends and Allies in every part of the world to take the same course and pursue it as we shall, faithfully and steadfastly to the end....

The Russian danger is therefore our danger and the danger of the United States just as the cause of any Russian fighting for his hearth and home is the cause of free men and free peoples in every quarter of the globe."

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