Comments by "doveton sturdee" (@dovetonsturdee7033) on "Was Churchill the Villain of WWII?" video.

  1. How is that related to a man who left politics in 1955? You might as well blame Robert Walpole.
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  2. And which august establishment of academic study do you lecture at?
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  3. Another day another idiot, I observe. Churchill held no political office between 1929 and September 1939, when he joined the Chamberlain administration as First Lord of the Admiralty. Chamberlain, in conjunction with Daladier, declared war in accordance with the Anglo-French agreement that they would do so if Germany invaded Poland. There was no suggestion that they would defend Poland. Read the Treaty if you don't believe me. The joint Anglo-French hope was that the threat would halt further German military aggression, and avert a general European war. No-one, British, American, or Canadian, 'gleefully' handed Poland over to anyone. The fact was that Poland was overrun (occupied or liberated, depending upon your view) by Soviet troops, and Western leaders were faced with a fait accompli. Moreover, after four years of praising genial Uncle Joe and his gallant lads, do you think any western leader could have persuaded public opinion that these heroes had suddenly morphed into villains? By the way, perhaps you chose not to notice that the British people kicked Churchill's 'sorry ass' (as you describe it, with the elegance of a Demosthenes) back into power in 1951, where he remained until retirement some three and a half years later.
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  4. Churchill was a war reporter in his mid 20s at the time of the Boer War. You use the emotive term Concentration Camp, presumably, to suggest a similarity between them and German WW2 extermination camps, when no such similarity exists.
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  5. Bullshit. Thev number of deaths seems to rise exponentially with the passage of time. However, there are a few actual facts which clearly escaped you, or perhaps your indoctrinators: Actually, the Bengal Famine had a number of causes, among which were the number of refugees from Japanese held areas, the inability to import food from those same areas, stockpiling by hoarders and, perhaps worst of all, the Bengal administration, which tried to minimise the crisis. The worst that could be said of Churchill was that he should have known what was taking place, but didn't. After all, in 1943, he had little else to worry about. You could also add the refusal of FDR to allow the transfer of merchant shipping, by the way. What is without dispute, except by those who choose to blame Churchill for everything since the Black Death, is that once he did find out, he transferred food distribution to the British Indian Army, and had grain convoys diverted from Australia to India. I appreciate, of course, that you won't believe any of this, as it doesn't suit the agenda with which you have probably been programmed.
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  6. Perhaps the concept of 'My enemy's enemy is my friend' is alien to you? Or Churchill's statement that 'If Hitler invaded hell, I would make at least one favourable comment about the devil in the House of Commons?'
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  7. There was no peace deal, except in the fevered imagination of the neos who infect such sites.
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  8. Not really, although Churchill, and Daladier, hoped that Mussolini could be encouraged to remain neutral at least.
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