Posted on 12/24/2017 1:12:14 PM PST by 3161J410
The Winston Churchill biopic Darkest Hour will feed into the debate around the nature of President Donald Trumps abrasive, confrontational form of leadership, says Joe Wright, the films director. Wright suggests that Darkest Hour, which stars Gary Oldman as the British prime minister during arguably the UKs most testing period of the second world war, is directly relevant to the USs current political turmoil.
Theres a big question in America at the moment: what does good leadership look like, says Wright,
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You are right. It is screaming in our ears that won’t stop.
Trump is bad. Trump is bad. Sound the alarm throughout the media. When things seem a lot better this year.
True. But also don’t forget the Germans tied up an astounding amount of resources trying to kill Jews-—guards, trains, etc. At critical times when the Germans needed transportation to the east, the trains were still moving Jews.
True also. I was only speaking to the old arguments about American vs. British vs. Russian credit for victory.
I’d dasn’t say that the Russians were equal with us, if not more so, in value towards defeating the Nazis.
It’s unbelievable what they went through, suffered and lost.
True, they almost lost the war because of Stalin’s purge of the officer corps, but they were subject to the most brutal invasions possible, and lost many more soldiers than we did.
Ed
Yes but human loss does not equate to possessing the moral high ground. I don’t know if that is what you also mean. But that is my takeaway.
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