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RE: Came back to the UK to find a white supremacist on the £5 notes...

in #white-supremacy • 8 years ago

I understand your points, but he also caused the deaths of countless millions (the empire were excellent at destroying records) of Indians in the Bengal region, prepartition era.

He was despised by most of parliament for his loutish behaviour, and would have never made it to Prime Minister, except that no one else wanted the job. He was the wrong man in the right place.
I never postulated that he is blacker than black. I believe he was just like Hitler, a human who thought he was doing right, but being a white-supremacist, a good guy for his in-group, and a bad guy for the out-group.

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    He acquiesced to the Bengal famine, as the Independent reports,Yes, @riskdebonair

    When Mahatma Gandhi launched his campaign of peaceful resistance, Churchill raged that he "ought to be lain bound hand and foot at the gates of Delhi, and then trampled on by an enormous elephant with the new Viceroy seated on its back." As the resistance swelled, he announced: "I hate Indians. They are a beastly people with a beastly religion." This hatred killed. To give just one, major, example, in 1943 a famine broke out in Bengal, caused – as the Nobel Prize-winning economist Amartya Sen has proved – by the imperial policies of the British. Up to 3 million people starved to death while British officials begged Churchill to direct food supplies to the region. He bluntly refused. He raged that it was their own fault for "breeding like rabbits". At other times, he said the plague was "merrily" culling the population.

    Skeletal, half-dead people were streaming into the cities and dying on the streets, but Churchill – to the astonishment of his staff – had only jeers for them. This rather undermines the claims that Churchill's imperialism was motivated only by an altruistic desire to elevate the putatively lower races.


    #india #bengal #famine #quitindiamovement

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    You're to kind towards Winston,he screwed anything othe r than british interest,introducing tito in yugoslav history,emprisonning our king in the savoy in london .he got a clap on his face during a transit in belgrade before the war and did not react,just saying sorry for you are a poor people on a wrong place.