Zelensky in the USA: Churchill’s precedent during the Second World War

LONDON – When yesterday Volodymyr Zelensky told the joint session of the US Congress that Ukraine “will never surrender”, many in Washington heard in his words the echo of a famous speech by Winston Churchill, who in June 1940, at the beginning of the Second World War, promised to fight the Nazi invader in the sky, on the beaches, everywhere, adding a phrase that has become proverbial: “We shall never surrender”.

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