From Russia with Love: Controversy Around the Russian Aid Campaign to Italy

Russian solidarity should be regarded as an effort to maintain a political status quo already considered favorable As Winston Churchill said in the mid-1940s as the end of World War II approached, “Never let a good crisis go to waste.” At the time, the British Prime Minister was presumably referring to the Yalta conference and the resulting alliance between him, Stalin, and Roosevelt, the trio that would lead to the founding of the United Nations, thus generating opportunities within a crisis....