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The Stylistic Analysis on Winston Churchill “Speech on Hitler’s Invasion of the U.S.S.R” (By Pan Linlin) Ⅰ. Quick biography of Winston Churchill Warrior and writer, genius and crank, rider in the British cavalry’s last great charge and inventor of the tank—Sir Winston Spencer Churchill(1874-1965) led Britain to fight alone against Nazi Germany in the fateful year of 1940 and set the standard for leading a democracy at war. He is the prime minister and first Lord of the Treasury (Oct.1951-April.1955) and his best known book is The Second World War.Written by Winston Churchill, Speech on Hitler’s Invasion of the U.S.S.R. is full of emotion, determination, powerful thoughts and impressive expressions. When thinking of Churchills attitude towards the Soviet Union one automatically thinks of him as the most outspoken of the advocates of armed intervention during the civil war, or as the author of the speech in Fulton, Missouri, which many people regard as the opening salvo in the Cold War. During the war, however, when the Soviet Union became a great ally without whose help the war in Europe could never have been won, his attitude was bound to be quite different. Even before the Germans launched ‘Operation Barbarossa’ thus forcing the Soviets into the Allied camp, Churchill had been thinking of the Russians as possible partners in the struggle against Nazi Germany, for however much he detested the Soviet regime, his passionate determination to destroy Nazism was a far more powerful emotion, and, as he put it, if Hitler were to invade Hell he would promptly sign a pact with the Devil. The effect of Churchill’s speech common people subdue, At moment of the suffering the most seriously in World War II, the British army and the peoples spirit is supported, nearly all lecture by Churchill’s broadcast of every day of mound .The news that Hitler’s invasion of Russia was brought to Churchill when he awoke on the morning of Sunday, the 22nd, June 1941. This changed conviction int