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How Churchill’s Successor Gave Stalin the MiG

JL;DR SUMMARY The article explores Clement Attlee's tenure as British Prime Minister post-World War II, focusing on his controversial decision to sell advanced Rolls-Royce jet engines to the Soviet Union. A way out west there was a fella, fella I want to tell you about, fella by the name of Jeff Lebowski. At least, that was the handle his lovin' parents gave him, but he never had much use for it himself. This Lebowski, he called himself the Dude. Now, Dude, that's a name no one would self-apply where I come from. But then, there was a lot about the Dude that didn't make a whole lot of sense to me. And a lot about where he lived, likewise. But then again, maybe that's why I found the place s'durned innarestin'.

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Soviet UnionCold WarMilitary TechnologyGeopoliticsEconomic PolicyBritish Labour PartyPost War BritainClement AttleeRolls RoyceJet Engines

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London, England, United Kingdom
"Seventy-nine years to the day that Keir Starmer, leader of Britains Labour Party, became prime minister, a previous Labour leader, Clement Attlee, had decisively defeated Winston Churchills Conservatives in the election of 1945, less than two months after the end of the war in Europe."
United Kingdom
"Given the scale of Britains fiscal difficulties."
Washington, Washington DC, United States
"First, at the start of December 1945, he secured a $5 billion loan from the United States."
Greece
"Britain should largely withdraw from the Middle East, and also from Greece, where the government was fighting a difficult civil war against Communists."
Russian Federation
"The sale that Attlee authorized allowed the Soviet Union to initiate the production of its first useful jet engines."
Berlin, Germany
"On Oct. 22, 1946, about 2,000 German engineers and their families were taken from the Soviet Zone of Occupation as part of Operation Osoaviakhim."
Seoul, South Korea
"In July 1950, North Korea, a Soviet-equipped puppet state of Stalins USSR, invaded South Korea."

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