![]() Kasparov, a long-time critic of Putin, said a “grand alliance” of democracies can show dictators that freedom, and not profits, will define their future relations. On the Missouri campus where Winston Churchill warned in 1946 that the Soviet Union was cementing its hold on Eastern Europe behind an “Iron Curtain,” Kasparov said it is again time to confront the evil of authoritarianism.Ĭhurchill’s speech, “The Sinews of Peace,” helped inspire President Harry Truman’s policies of containment and the creation of NATO. The invasion of Ukraine awakened free countries to the threat posed by Russia and Vladimir Putin, but whether they will sustain that resistance to dictators is an open question, former world chess champion Garry Kasparov said last Friday during a speech at Westminster College in Fulton, Missouri. Kasparov follows in footsteps of Churchill with Fulton speech calling for hard line against Putin and dictators around the worldįULTON, MO. Photo: Madeline Carter/Missouri Independent Mary Aldermanbury at the National Churchill Museum at Westminster College in Fulton, Missouri. ![]() Garry Kasparov delivers a speech on the consequences of Putin’s aggression towards Ukraine on Friday, Oct.
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