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Winston Churchill is no better than Adolf Hitler says Indian politician Dr Shashi Tharoor
Posted on 3/22/17 at 8:21 pm
Posted on 3/22/17 at 8:21 pm
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An Indian politician has said Winston Churchill is no better than Adolf Hitler and the two leaders have equivalent amounts of “blood” on their hands.
Dr Shashi Tharoor, whose new book Inglorious Empire chronicles the atrocities of the British Empire, said the former British Prime Minister should be remembered alongside the most prominent dictators of the twentieth century.
Dr Tharoor, a former Under-Secretary General of the UN, said the blame for the Bengal Famine rested with Churchill. In 1943, up to four million Bengalis starved to death when Churchill diverted food to British soldiers and countries such as Greece while a deadly famine swept through Bengal.
“This is the man who the British insist on hailing as some apostle of freedom and democracy," the author said of Churchill at a launch of his book. "When to my mind he is really one of the more evil rulers of the 20th century only fit to stand in company of the likes of Hitler, Mao and Stalin".
“Churchill has as much blood on his hands as Hitler does,” the Indian MP said. “Particularly the decisions that he personally signed off during The Bengal Famine when 4.3 million people died because of the decisions he took or endorsed."
"Not only did the British pursue its own policy of not helping the victims of this famine which was created by their policies. Churchill persisted in exporting grain to Europe, not to feed actual ‘Sturdy Tommies’, to use his phrase, but add to the buffer stocks that were being piled up in the event of a future invasion of Greece and Yugoslavia”.
“Ships laden with wheat were coming in from Australia docking in Calcutta and were instructed by Churchill not to disembark their cargo but sail on to Europe,” he added. “And when conscience-stricken British officials wrote to the Prime Minister in London pointing out that his policies were causing needless loss of life all he could do was write peevishly in the margin of the report, ‘Why hasn’t Gandhi died yet?'"
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Posted on 3/22/17 at 8:24 pm to Bench McElroy
Big difference between having to make a logistical decision and actively pursuing industrial scale murder.
Posted on 3/22/17 at 8:24 pm to Bench McElroy
How anyone could consider this important or noteworthy is mind boggling. War is hell.
If you don't understand the distinction between this and the Final Solution, then it's not worth the argument
Not referring to OP, but the Indian MP
If you don't understand the distinction between this and the Final Solution, then it's not worth the argument
Not referring to OP, but the Indian MP
This post was edited on 3/22/17 at 8:26 pm
Posted on 3/22/17 at 8:24 pm to Bench McElroy
We hate our Indians, don't we folks
Posted on 3/22/17 at 8:38 pm to Bench McElroy
Depending on your viewpoint Winston Churchill could be viewed many ways.
He was ruthless and cut throat and manipulative. But he with much assistance over game the axispowers.
He manipulated a way to get lots of arms from us without us being in the war, which stimulated our economy.
But then the whole Pearl Harbor tragedy which brought us into the war was very serendipitous and convenient.
Winston chiurchill also recieved secret correspondence from Adolph hitler trying to end the war earlier on. In like 41 or 42 . He could have stopped there but that wasn't in his nature.
Most people don't remember that He moved into the White House and basically made himself co president. Ordering the White House staff around like he owned the place. Drinking scotch and smoking cigars in his under garments out in the open. Can you imagine that in today's world.. In any country?
Also some of the American people even celebrities who helped with the USO effort received the British cross / were knighted ... I wonder what this grand service to Britain was. Normal generals and military weren't honored thusly and not every USO or celebrity. In Particular I refer to Bob Hope the king of American media at the time able to travel to all of the American camps during the war. Would have been really easy to transfer information through him or for him to gain information.
After the blitzkreig Winston Churchill was not ready for the tchnology hitter had and he acquired the US and its patriots to get the job done.
So there are definitely multiple sides one black one white, and one shade of gray.
He was ruthless and cut throat and manipulative. But he with much assistance over game the axispowers.
He manipulated a way to get lots of arms from us without us being in the war, which stimulated our economy.
But then the whole Pearl Harbor tragedy which brought us into the war was very serendipitous and convenient.
Winston chiurchill also recieved secret correspondence from Adolph hitler trying to end the war earlier on. In like 41 or 42 . He could have stopped there but that wasn't in his nature.
Most people don't remember that He moved into the White House and basically made himself co president. Ordering the White House staff around like he owned the place. Drinking scotch and smoking cigars in his under garments out in the open. Can you imagine that in today's world.. In any country?
Also some of the American people even celebrities who helped with the USO effort received the British cross / were knighted ... I wonder what this grand service to Britain was. Normal generals and military weren't honored thusly and not every USO or celebrity. In Particular I refer to Bob Hope the king of American media at the time able to travel to all of the American camps during the war. Would have been really easy to transfer information through him or for him to gain information.
After the blitzkreig Winston Churchill was not ready for the tchnology hitter had and he acquired the US and its patriots to get the job done.
So there are definitely multiple sides one black one white, and one shade of gray.
Posted on 3/22/17 at 8:39 pm to Bench McElroy
Southeast Asia at large has a ridiculous infatuation with Hitler. It is very strange.
Posted on 3/22/17 at 9:07 pm to Bench McElroy
Churchill was far more quotable.
"Winston, You're Drunk!"
"And You Madam, are Ugly, but I will be sober in the morning."
"Winston, You're Drunk!"
"And You Madam, are Ugly, but I will be sober in the morning."
Posted on 3/22/17 at 10:13 pm to Bench McElroy
Winston Churchill would have been awesome on twitter. "Ending a sentence with a preposition is something up with which I will not put."
Posted on 3/23/17 at 2:09 am to Bench McElroy
Evil Churchill was behind it all.
It's Churchill's fault that Burma fell to the Japanese military. Ignore the fact that Burma supplied 15% of India's rice by 1940. And the fact that after January 1942, no rice from Burma entered India until after the war.
Don't mind the influx of refugess from Burma either (estimates range from 100,000 to 500,000) along with the additional soldiers stationed there for an anticipated invasion.
Let's also ignore that weather that included a typhoon and three tidals waves that hit in late 1942. This was followed by a fungal infection that significantly diminished crop yield.
It was all Churchill. Obviously we should just believe the politician. I doubt anyone has done any scholarly research on this subject whatsoever. LINK
It's not like anyone researched and wrote a book on the subject that ranges in price quite remarkably: LINK
It's Churchill's fault that Burma fell to the Japanese military. Ignore the fact that Burma supplied 15% of India's rice by 1940. And the fact that after January 1942, no rice from Burma entered India until after the war.
Don't mind the influx of refugess from Burma either (estimates range from 100,000 to 500,000) along with the additional soldiers stationed there for an anticipated invasion.
Let's also ignore that weather that included a typhoon and three tidals waves that hit in late 1942. This was followed by a fungal infection that significantly diminished crop yield.
quote:
The only evidence by an expert in the subject concludes, 'The only other instance [of disease damage]that bears comparison in loss sustained by a food crop and the human calamity that followed in its wake is the Irish Potato Famine of 1845.'.
It was all Churchill. Obviously we should just believe the politician. I doubt anyone has done any scholarly research on this subject whatsoever. LINK
It's not like anyone researched and wrote a book on the subject that ranges in price quite remarkably: LINK
Posted on 3/23/17 at 6:20 am to Bench McElroy
quote:
Dr Shashi Tharoor
is a retard
Posted on 3/23/17 at 6:30 am to Bench McElroy
Stalin and Moa were both far worse than Hitler.
Don't know why Hitler is the one compared to when it comes to evil.
Don't know why Hitler is the one compared to when it comes to evil.
Posted on 3/23/17 at 8:03 am to Bench McElroy
That's why moral relativism has limits. This is an example when we can say a person, in this case Dr. Shashi Tharoor, is completely full of shite and driven by an anti-Colonial and anti-British sentiment.
Obama probably feels the same way as Tharoor, just to be honest.
Obama probably feels the same way as Tharoor, just to be honest.
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