Comments by "doveton sturdee" (@dovetonsturdee7033) on "Winston Churchill - Britain's Wartime Leader Documentary" video.

Of course he did. He was also responsible for the Black Death, the Thirty Years' War, and the Peterloo Massacre. Subsequently, he was probably Jack the Ripper as well. Clearly, a complex variety of factors, such as loss of rice imports from Japanese captured areas, the large number of refugees entering Bengal, the rising population of Bengal itself, price inflation imposed by wealthier (in the main, Indian) farmers, the refusal of FDR to permit diversion of shipping space, and the inadequate response of the government of Bengal itself, had nothing to do with it. The worst Churchill can be accused of is not concentrating his attention on Bengal. After all, in 1943, it isn't as if he had anything else to occupy his mind, is it? Clearly, he and his advisors should have realized that the Bengal government reports that the famine was grossly exaggerated were false. He did, in October, 1943, give control of relief efforts to the British Indian Army, and he diverted grain shipments from Australia, both measures which improved the situation, but I suppose that that was part of his evil master plan as well?
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Churchill ceased to be Prime Minister after 26 July, 1945, before Japan had even been defeated. The British government responsible for the partition of India was a Labour one. Sorry!
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Exactly how was he a war criminal?
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@sunilshah0 Your evidence for this being?
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@sunilshah0 So. You haven't actually any evidence for this, because it is all a 'massive cover up?'
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@sunilshah0 By your criteria, everyone who doesn't subscribe to the faddish opinions of some people in 2020 is a RAYCIST. Presumably, therefore, everyone throughout the whole of history is equally beyond the pale. By everyone, one must include Mohandas Gandhi, who referred to Africans as inferior humans, I assume. Are you really so foolish or so brainwashed that you really believe that the opinions of someone born 150 years ago should be required to adhere to those of 2020? In 2170, I expect that many of the cherished prejudices of the current woke generation will be similarly anathematized or ridiculed.
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@sunilshah0 Not at all. I am trying to get you to grasp, clearly without success, that opinions which may (or, indeed, may not) be considered correct in 2020 cannot be imposed on individuals who were born 150 years ago.
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@sunilshah0 Actually, were you actually to read accounts of Operation Dynamo, you would discover that no-one abandoned anyone at Dunkirk. The British & Allied navies lifted 338,000 men out of the pocket, of which just over 100,000 were French. As Prime Minister at the time, isn't it just possible that Churchill had some input into whether this operation was to be attempted or not?
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@sunilshah0 It appears that your actual knowledge of events is somewhat distorted by the propaganda to which you have been exposed. Whether Churchill was a hero or not is irrelevant. Your unhealthy need to distort historical facts is, however, quite intriguing. There are literally dozens of books & other sources about Dynamo, written by American, British, French, & German historians. Perhaps you might consider reading one or two before posting ill-informed foolishness?
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Churchill wasn't even in government until after war had been declared. His crime in your eyes, I suspect, was that he warned that Germany was re-arming. Was he wrong?
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