{"id":5043,"date":"2015-03-19T21:36:58","date_gmt":"2015-03-20T01:36:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/quallsk\/?p=5043"},"modified":"2016-02-01T14:14:29","modified_gmt":"2016-02-01T19:14:29","slug":"the-bestworst-of-two-evils","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/quallsk\/2015\/03\/19\/the-bestworst-of-two-evils\/","title":{"rendered":"The best\/worst of two evils"},"content":{"rendered":"

After reading Churchill\u2019s speech and Stalin\u2019s response on it, I wonder what a smart orator Soviet leader was. They both were trying to convince their audience in the idea that another one is a possible threat for the world, but do it in a very different way, and, from my point of view, Stalin is more effective in that.<\/p>\n

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Churchill introduced some facts, like growing influence of communists parties on the other side of the Iron Curtain, and then just added the claims that it was bad, dangerous for the world piece, destroying, etc. He did\u2019t provide these claims with evidence, he didn\u2019t present clearly why he thought that it was the possible threat for the world, etc.<\/div>\n
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At the same time, Stalin did his job great almost just by paralleling Churchill\u2019s speech with nazi Germany’s ideology. He even didn\u2019t have to explain it further to reach his audience, probably, not only in Soviet Union, but all other the world by that. This parallel, I think, should be very effective in a post-war world, as everybody remembers nazi\u2019s rhetorics, ideas on which that ideology was built, etc. So, even if Churchill\u2019s speech was about to inspire nations to think about the communists as a potential thread to the world, this passage made Britain look as the country which wants to expand its\u2019 influence to the entire world, supported by english-speaking countries and persuading them to aggressive policy because they have a \u201ctraditions\u201d or \u201cvalues\u201d which have to be spread and destroy other ideologies. Pointing on that, Stalin did a clever hook in maybe not making soviet ideology more popular, but at least in showing his opponent being the worst of two evils.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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