Comment by Daub
Comment by Daub 2 months ago
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Comment by Daub 2 months ago
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Can't see anything wrong in making fun of the powerful, that's what comedy is mostly about. It is also the main way we turn these people back into human beings instead of the carefully curated image they wanted to show to the world, with their good and evil deeds.
He killed millions by causing a famine, taking rice that was then stored and never used.
“ cabinet was warned repeatedly that the exhaustive use of Indian resources for the war effort could result in famine, but it opted to continue exporting rice from India to elsewhere in the empire.” https://amp.theguardian.com/world/2019/mar/29/winston-church...
Not everyone lays the blame at the Prime Minister’s door, however. Churchill biographer Andrew Roberts wrote in an opinion column on Britain’s i news website last year that Churchill “did all he could to relieve the terrible Bengal Famine subject to the exigencies of the Japanese holding Burma and their submarines infesting the Bay of Bengal.”
Churchill was a genocidal monster. Just deal with it.
> Churchill did a great service to us all.
Maybe we stop hero worshipping and learn the real history? https://www.cnn.com/2019/03/29/asia/churchill-bengal-famine-...
Not everyone lays the blame at the Prime Minister’s door, however. Churchill biographer Andrew Roberts wrote in an opinion column on Britain’s i news website last year that Churchill “did all he could to relieve the terrible Bengal Famine subject to the exigencies of the Japanese holding Burma and their submarines infesting the Bay of Bengal.”
I think you'll find even the mustached instigator of ww2 has his defenders.
This is recounted in the article:
> Karsh ducked his head under the camera’s viewing cloth and adjusted the focus. The cigar was still lit in Churchill’s mouth. In a tale that he would repeat countless times, Karsh suggested the prime minister place the cigar in a nearby ashtray. Churchill ignored him, so Karsh pulled the cigar from his mouth and rushed back to his camera. “He looked so belligerent he could have devoured me,” Karsh later recalled. Then he pulled the trigger.