Every few years, someone accuses Churchill of being a war criminal.
I went to the story but didn’t read it after seeing a picture of Olusoga, who looks like a snowflake’s snowflake.
Applying the tastes, culture, transient sentiment and temporal judgement of one era to another is bigotry.
Without Churchill this idiot would be speaking German.
And, he had hundreds of slaves! And, he had “relations” with one of them!!
Same ol’ story.
“doesn’t mean that he wasn’t somebody that wasn’t responsible, or largely responsible, for the Bengal famine of 1943-44.”
Nonsense!
Churchill was a bit preoccupied in that time frame.
He had no responsibility for saving the rest of the world.
The Bengal famine of '43-'44 was due to WORLD WAR TWO, you idiot "historian". And if his reference to Africa refers to Churchill's stint as a young subaltern in the Sudan, let's talk about the "war crimes" committed by the other side before we worry about Britain's response to them . . . they were Islamic fanatics btw, same old story . . .
Where I take issue with people like him is not that they want to study and/or reveal the negative things that great figures from history may have done, but that they tend to maintain a laser-like focus on those negative actions to the point of "redefining" the good things that these people accomplished.
My other problem with them is that they only seem to want to subject white, European & American historical figures to this "revisiting" process. How about "revisiting" Montezuma? Or Shaka Zulu? Or the Islamic African chiefs who sold their own people in to slavery?
Humans of all colors from all continents have been treating each other badly tens of thousands of years - it did not start and end with the British Empire or Belgium's Leopold II.
Did Winston Churchill do some bad stuff in the name of Great Britain? Yes, of course. But left to their own devices, a$$hats with the mindset of David Olusoga would have us believe that there was no moral difference between him and Hitler or Mussolini.
History wars??? There is only truth......AND Leftist revisionist writing. I fear that revisionism will win out and our future generations will be manipulated into believeing all the ‘evil’ that Leftists peddle.
We continue the march towards white genocide.
Leftists kill.
Classic academic deconstructionism.
Revising history to fit an agenda. No credibility.
India and the Indian Army were responsible for addressing famine relief.
Idiots.
David Olusoga
Born: Lagos, Nigeria
It’s only a matter of time before Britain treats Churchill, as if he was Jefferson Davis.
Olusoga channels the jug-eared jackass.
Just recently, I was reading about Operation Catapult (July 1940), which was when the British seized or destroyed much of the French fleet after the surrender of France. Churchill had brass balls to try and pull that off against an ally and I doubt any other British leader at the time would have attempted to do so. Taking this move kept the French fleet out of German hands and helped ensure that the British Navy would continue to rule the seas.
Remember, this was a time when England was all alone against the German colossus. The United States was still over a year from even entering the war. Churchill almost single-handedly held off the Nazis from dominating all of Europe during that 1940-42 period.
World War 2 had plenty of war criminals. Churchill was decidedly not one of them.
Another fool using modern standards to judge historical figures, just like the ignorant parasites denigrating the founding fathers. Churchill was certainly not perfect; he made secret deals with the Soviet Union to take Greece in exchange for Romania, Bulgaria, and Yugoslavia, but that was the best deal he was going to get at the time. He also did not look too closely at the German death camps, but he was kind of in a struggle for British survival at the time.
PC Bullsh*t.