Comments by "Evan" (@MrEvanfriend) on "Winston Churchill: In the Darkest Hour" video.
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@markharrison2544 I don't, and your idiotic conspiracy theories are utterly detached from reality.
The fact of the matter is that Churchill was a great man. Arguably the best of the 20th century. However, your politics don't align with his, and so you're willing to ignore the actual historical record to slander a great man, simply because you don't like his politics.
Let me guess, you claim to hate "Nazis" and "fascists". Well, Churchill was the mind behind defeating ACTUAL Nazis and ACTUAL fascists. I'm not talking about uninformed posts on social media, I'm talking about real resolve and real strategic planning to defeat bona fide authoritarian regimes, not just "people who hold opinions different from yours".
It's a shame that you've blinded yourself with a ridiculous ideology. That your hatred of those who see things differently from you has led you to such indefensible "beliefs" that you claim to hold about one of the greatest men in history. That your hatred has led you to conspiracy theories about how Churchill was never elected, or how he was somehow magically the captain of a German submarine, or whatever other nonsense. You're entitled to your own opinion, but you aren't entitled to your own facts.
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MartyrX Uh, Churchill was a soldier for quite a while, and fought various people in India and Africa (and Europe). Using words that are politically incorrect a hundred years later as "proof" of anything is entirely disingenuous and you should be ashamed of yourself for even making that attempt.
Putting down armed uprisings in Africa isn't "genocide".
The Bengal famine was caused by a variety of factors, none of which Churchill had any control over.
Your argument, such as it is, boils down to "he said some mean things about people from other countries". And for the sake of that, you're willing to dismiss his myriad contributions to mankind.
As for Thatcher, yes, her privatization of large swaths of the economy caused temporary turmoil. It is also the reason that Britain isn't like Greece right now. The fact is that a free market economy is far better for prosperity and decent living conditions for as many people as possible than a command economy. Thatcher recognized that when many in Britain did not. She also, along with US President Reagan and Pope John Paul II, is one of the three world leaders who were able to apply pressure to the Soviet Union that aided in their eventual collapse - which of course was an unequivocal good thing for millions of people under the communist boot.
You don't know what you're talking about, please try and educate yourself on some basic 20th century history. These things matter.
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