“One might as well legalise sodomy as recognise the Bolsheviks.”

— Winston S. Churchill

Paris, 24 January 1919. Churchill: A Life. Gilbert, Martin (1992). New York: Holt, p. 408. ISBN 9780805023961
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Prime Minister of the United Kingdom 1874–1965

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