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Winston Churchill

posted 9 years ago by bloody-3
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The first episode of this documentary dealing with World War 2 mentions arch racist and imperialist Winston Churchill with no negative comment. I find that strange as this show is made by Oliver Stone and others who claim to be progressive - www.veteranstoday.com/2015/09/24/churchill-was-a-mass-murderer-and-worshipped-mammon/
Churchill also made the claim that Jews were responsible for creating communism but he didn't want to be reminded of it during the second world war - www.fpp.co.uk/bookchapters/WSC/WSCwrote1920.html

[–] tstevens-52238 9 years ago

In one demonstration of his humanity, he turned over surrendering Axis forces to the Soviets, whose executions were all but certain:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bleiburg_repatriations

Why didn't I learn that in high school, or this program?

[–] bloody-3 9 years ago

This show also didn't mention how Churchill refused to send food relief to India during the Bengal famine in 1942-43 which greatly increased the death toll. He didn't like Indians referring to them as a "beastly people" -
http://forum.codoh.com/viewtopic.php?f=20&t=8241

[–] bloody-3 9 years ago

Churchill's legacy of global conflict and crimes against humanity - www.counterpunch.org/2016/01/25/winston-churchill-britains-greatest-briton-left-a-legacy-of-global-conflict-and-crimes-against-humanity/

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[–] tim17037 8 years ago

I think he covers Churchill enough without harping on him in the second episode. Churchill is only interested in Englands position and empire after the war and is making decisions and deals only for itself. To go into each action Churchill undertakes to this end would distract from the focus too much I think.