James Holland

But the reason it becomes controversial is because they feel they've done the hard yards, they've done all this stuff, and now they're coming back and they're now thinking about their own needs and requirements and the strikes going on and the threat of recession and the threat of unemployment.

And also, they've just sent all this money and cash and arms and trucks and aid to the Soviet Union, and now they're saying...

This was a malevolent regime.

We're going to have to do it all over again.

And we're going to have to do it all over again.

Potentially, if we're not careful.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

I think it's really important that although they might be communist, you know, Stalin is just another in a long line of autocratic dictators in Russia.

As they quite often do.

Yes.

Just suck it up for a last bit.

But it takes us back to where we were at the start of the entire series.

We started with that speech from March 1947.

Yeah.

Where Truman is urging Congress to agree to a bailout package for Greece and Turkey.

And he doesn't get on top of Jimmy Burns.

Yes, because he's been chief of staff.

For those who aren't aware of who he is, he's been the most senior military figure in the United States.

During the Second World War, he's a chief of staff.

So, you know, he is the top general and has done a fantastic job.