3 Aug 2022 12:04 pm
Xavier_Onassis » 03 Aug 2022, 11:55 am » wrote: ↑ Churchill was clearly a White supremacist and adored the idea of the British ruling a huge Empire of people who would have preferred to lead themselves, but he was not an absolutist.
Churchill held the British Isles together in the early 1940's, and the war would not have been won without that. But the US and the USSR both had more to do with the actual winning. Of course it was a team effort.
By the way, Churchill's party never got a vote in any election, Nor has ANY Conservative managed to do this since the 1930's.
As soon as the War was over, the British voted the Conservatives OUT of office.
Churchill was a good speaker and a decent human being in many, but not all ways.
He wore pink satin underpants and often did not pay his bills. Read a biography. A recent one.
I didn't realize that choosing Winston Churchill would be so controversial. Perhaps I should change it to Elenore Roosevelt or FDR.
Nothing is easier than defending the status quo.