Indira Gandhi was born on 19 November 1917 in Allahabad near Agra, India, about 200 km southeast of New Delhi. She fought for India’s independence alongside her father Jawaharlal Nehru, who became the first Prime Minister of independent India in 1947. As a teenager, she organized the youth movement of her party. In this way she forged of unbreakable relationships with those who would become her party's future cadres and MPs. She became president of her party's election commission and then information minister in 1964 after her father's death. Indira Gandhi was elected Prime Minister of India...

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Winston Churchill was appointed Prime Minister by King George VI on 10 May 1940 at 6.30 pm. That morning, Adolf Hiter had ordered the invasion of France, Belgium, Luxembourg and the Netherlands ending the phoney war, the first eight months of which saw no offensive against France. This appointment was the consequence of the disavowal of the outgoing Prime Minister, Neville Chamberlain, by Labour and the Liberals following his hesitations. Churchill supported a more dynamic strategy of preventive interventions even in neutral European countries.At the beginning of his mandate the military situa...

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After his defeat in 1945, Winston Churchill took up his two passions, writing and painting. He accepted the responsibility of Leader of the Opposition obtained through his experience and great popularity. He focused his communication on the international sphere. The victory in 1945 resulted in the strengthening of Stalin's communist dictatorship. Many European countries, such as sacrificed Poland, found themselves behind the "Iron Curtain" under Bolshevik rule. Winston Churchill positioned the Conservatives political line on the center-right. At the European level, he refused to align himself ...

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