The Rest of Us Always Knew Churchill Was a Villain
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The Rest of Us Always Knew Churchill Was a Villain
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#2Meh. It's sad, but the structure of the universe is probably such that one cannot become a leader of millions without being a villain.
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#3This is garbage. The real villains are Neville Chamberlain and Lord Halifax. They would have condemned half a billion people to death just to give Britain a few extra years of peace.
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#4I'd be surprised if it's actually "a mystery" to anyone why Churchill is considered a hero of democracy.
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#5FWIW, the (in)famous “I do not understand this squeamishness about the use of gas” quote was in reference to tear gas. Ultimately banned for use in warfare by international treaty, but still commonly used today in civilian matters.
https://www.nationalchurchillmuseum.org/churchills-1919-war-...
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#7> “History,” Churchill himself said, “will judge me kindly, because I intend to write it myself.” He did, penning a multi-volume history of World War Two, and won the Nobel Prize for Literature for his self-serving fictions.
One of my favorite conspiracy theories is the idea that Churchill and Roosevelt conspired to allow the attack at Pearl Harbor to occur.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pearl_Harbor_advance-knowledge...
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#8Sounds like ideologic revisionism to me.
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#9Three million Indians died while food sailed West. http://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,2031992...
The death tolls in the East during the Second World War (far greater in China than in India certainly) are absolutely staggering. Churchill's policy in Bengal was Mao-esque in malice and incompetence.
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#10Perfect article. High time people dismiss the self proclaimed heroic version of western history and know the reality. A person with noble prize deserved to be hanged till death in an Indian jail.