The Bunglers

Not much has changed at the top in Russia

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When he was writing his history of the great conflict in which he had played such a decisive role, Winston Churchill had cause to reflect on the nature of political leadership during a time of war. With both triumph and disaster on his own wartime resume, and bearing in mind his hapless predecessor Neville Chamberlain and the preposterous Mussolini, Churchill came to the conclusion that it was the…