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... strove with all the energy in my power against Communism, because at that time I considered Communism, with its idea of world revolution, the greatest danger to the British Empire ... Nowadays German Nazism, with its idea of the world hegemony of Berlin, constitutes the greatest danger for the British Empire ... If the danger for the British Empire from the side of Fascism were to disappear and the danger from the side of Communism were to rise again, I - I say this absolutely frankly - would begin to strive against you again."1 For Winston Churchill the danger from the side of Communism returned almost instantly once Germany had surrendered on 8th May 1945. This is not surprising for Churchill had been a fierce and long-standing enemy of Communism, which he famously described as "a pestilence more destructive of life than the Black Death or the Spotted Typhus."2 Far ...