A poll has shown that 43% of people think we should be proud of the British empire – apparently untroubled by its history of massacres concentration camps and deliberate famines.
So basically nearly half the population thinks the Amritsar massacre – the concentration camps during the Boer war and after – the Mau Mau uprising – the post-partition violence in India caused by uprooting 10 million people and the four million deaths from famine in Bengal while Churchill diverted grain to British troops and other countries were – what?
Dunno. Not things they knew about? The price of doing business? We did bring a lot of economic development to places, you know.
I’m sure the bones of starving children thank you.
Anyway Churchill was wonderful in the war.
Was he? ‘I hate Indians’ he said – talking about the Bengal famine in 1943. “They are a beastly people with a beastly religion. The famine was their own fault for breeding like rabbits.”
Um … all great men have their blind spots?
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Churchill was never a great man. Her served the “elites”, banking despots and war criminals and became a war criminal after serving his apprenticeship. He cost many NZders their lives along with millions of others and the spin put on his corrupt actions is appalling. His followers today live in denial brainwashed by the myths they are fed.
He was a key player in the causing of uncountable deaths and misery across many decades, the annexation of vast tracts of resources for the profit of a few he served. The present day Middle misery was authored by Churchill.