“Churchill, he is a great man. He is, of course, our enemy and has always been the enemy of Communism, but he is an enemy one must respect, an enemy one likes to have.”

—  Josip Broz Tito

Jasper Ridley, Tito: A Biography (Constable and Company Ltd., 1994), p. 323.
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