The Struik Case of 1951

In a famous speech delivered in Fulton, Missouri in March, 1946, Winston Churchill declared the outbreak of the Cold War. There was, he said, an iron curtain hanging across Europe, using an expression of Goebbels, der eiserne Schirm. Truman was there. Roosevelt's policy of accommodation with the Soviets was now abandoned. It was time to contain, if not destroy, the Soviet Union, the enemy of a ruling class that dreamt of an American Empire, economically dominant and alone in possessing the atomic bomb. But convincing the American people that the Soviet Union was a dangerous enemy was not so simple as declaring war. The role played by the Soviet armies in defeating the Nazis had made the communist-ruled country and its ruler, "Uncle joe" Stalin, quite popular.This article can also be found at the Monthly Review website, where most recent articles are published in full.Click here to purchase a PDF version of this article at the Monthly Review website

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