Churchill was responsible for death of millions of Indians and called Indians as dogs. He might be a great leader but "his hand bear the blood of millions of Indians." This was not mentioned in the video
Mr Maverick The underlying causes of the famine include inefficient agricultural practices, over-population, and de-peasantisation through debt bondage and land grabbing. how was a man fighting a war of survival responsible for people breeding themselves into starvation?
Biographics my granddad whom was the danish ambassador in london was the person who brought churchill's elephants order back to copenhagen shortly after he passed PS the elephants order in Denmark is the highest order you can get and almost only the royals own them PPS you the danish government requires you to give back your orders after you pass away. FuN sTorIE RIIiiiiiGht
Watched a video of an old man on an American tv show from the 50s who was the last living witness to the assassination of President Lincoln which I found astounding
@@tuskular then why he shifted supplies of food grains to army even though there was surplus food for army and bengal famine was the intention of britishers your nation hasn't achieved anything on its own its just you looted india and you became superpower even today British museum is full of stolen indian arts!
@@tirthankarpandit7009 yeah he was kind of a racist asshole when you look back on it, but he was a strong leader and a major player in taking out the Nazis.
@@PetriDishB I think you missed the joke. Maybe you should study history before you comment. Like I did, I am a history teacher. An awfull lot of Brits got killed at Dunkirk and further up the coast. Trying to draw German fire of the main group. If Churchill hadn't had the brilliant idea to send the fleet of pleasure vessels a lot more Brits would have been killed. Hitler definitly planned to invade England the RAF stopped him.
@@PetriDishB "Never wanted to". Completely wrong. Hitler very much wanted to conquer the British Isles and force them to sue for peace allowing a one front war against the USSR. He build invasion craft and the Luftwaffe's' job was to gain air supremacy to allow for the invasion.
Also, in spite of the mild speech impediment, he was a brilliant speaker and a rapier wit. One of my favorite quotes of his, in reference to his support of Stalin against the Nazis despite his being a fervent anticommunist: "If Hitler invaded Hell, I would at least make favorable reference to the Devil in the House of Commons".
@marksneddon Yes , he was a staunch anti-communist , how does that in any way imply regret for doing everything in his power to defeat the Nazis ? what are you talking about ?
“We proceeded systematically, village by village, and we destroyed the houses, filled up the wells, blew down the towers, cut down the great shady trees, burned the crops and broke the reservoirs in punitive devastation.” - Churchill on how the British carried on in Afghanistan, and he was only too happy to be part of it.
My favourite Churchill quote. The second-worst thing in the history of Russia was the birth of Lenin. The worst thing in her history was the death of Lenin.
@Chiranth Anand It's not contradictory. He means that while Lenin and his actions were pretty bad, him dying made everything worse because his successor (Stalin) was allowed into power.
@@thelegendthemyththeman4772 no because stalin wasnt the major man behind the revolution... don't get me wrong he was also important but lenin and trotsky were the much bigger driving force behind the revolution so thus no lenin = no stalin which in the end makes the Statement valid again
"We shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender.”
17:37 Being a teenager myself, my brain genuinely hurts after hearing that. I have no idea how people thought that my boi Winston Churchill was a fictional character, i'm outraged!
Worry not. Less than a score of years is but the beginning of learning, of which there is more and more for each succeeding generation to do. Those same 'illiterates' have much they could teach me I'm sure and I have more than three score to my credit.
World War 2 was probably the best thing that could’ve happened to Churchill, if it wasn’t for WW2 his legacy probably would have been his botching of the Gallipoli Campaign.
Or... did his eminence from the war years simply highlight a chapter in history that juxtaposes his later success? If not for WW2, perhaps the Churchill/Gallipoli connection would only be the stuff of trivia buffs and historic scholars and the name Churchill would be an historic obscurity. Not many military leaders achieve fame for high-profile blunders. Some may even argue that Gallipoli wasn't necessarily a tactical blunder if you consider it was a huge risk made in desperation to alleviate the gridlock of the western front. But there is certainly no arguing that where it was a monumental botch, was that of an Empire's arrogance in its cost in human life.
My favourite Churchill quote comes from Yalta. "Comrade Stalins foreign policy is based on peace." Then to Roosevelt out of the interpreters earshot. "A piece of Poland, a piece of Hungary, a piece of Bulgaria."
I was wondering when you'd get around to Churchill. He was such a major figure in 20th century history you couldn't avoid covering him at some point. The second World War could have turned out very differently without him as the leader of Britain at that point in history. Great videos on this channel. XD
Had the British not allied with the Russians (Churchill's decision) Nazi Germany may have taken the caucuses complete with the natural resources they needed...
A poll was done of the British people a while back, asking who was the greatest Briton that ever lived. The vote was almost unanimously in favor of Winston Churchill.
Likely England would have come under Nazi control, reinstalled Edward as king and attempted to assert control over the commonwealth. The USA would in turn quite likely have invaded Canada to prevent having an enemy at their doorstep. The cold war would have been with a german occupied Europe rather than Stalin’s Russia. Who knows what Europe would look like today, but it’s possible the North America would be a single unified country.
hitler invaded holland, belgium and the Netherlands....uuuhhmm...holland is a part of the netherlands. its one of its 12 provincines. i love the video's.
Holland is another name for the Netherlands, we do have indeed two (of our 12 provinces) called North-Holland (Amsterdam, Haarlem, Alkmaar etc.) and South-Holland (Rotterdam, Den Haag, Leiden, etc).
This is my new favorite channel. No doubt I'll put off precious sleep clicking on more videos. You're a brilliant man, Simon. I can't commend you enough for your fascinating work. Thank you!
Learning about Churchill’s personal life just made me admire him a lot more. I would’ve never thought that under the tough man there was a sweet loving father and husband who had such an emotionally rough childhood.
@@HistoryMadeSimple90 Churchill was the greatest axis general ever. let Coventry fall, let Pearl Harbor get bombed, let Singapore fall, and starved millions of Indians. nevermind the amount of Indian and Australian soldiers he had killed
@@theparadigm8149 , on the left side of the screen, hanging on the wall are drone helicopters and the controls for them. Maybe as someone else pointed out, in his spare time he bombs Iraq, who knows.
Francisco MM like the bengal famine, in which he tried to get Canada and the us to ship food to, and ended up getting Australia to ship food to them after the first two couldn’t due to, well, the danger of long distance shipping in the middle of a world war. It wasn’t like he purposely had the bengals starve
@@franciscomm7675 ah yes, requesting Canada and Australia to ship food to India during the Bengal famine was indeed incredibly racist of him. Let's not forget that the shortage was in part due to Ghandi's supporters undermining the government at the time, or the fact that Britain was already hard pressed for resources, it was all Churchill 's fault.
It is also, sadly, fictional (see Andrew Robert's biography Walking With Destiny). He DID, however, utter the nearly as delicious retort, when being accused of being drunk "and what's more, disgustingly drunk" by Labor MP Bessie Braddock in 1946 (he was not drunk; he was simply very tired. WSC drank alcohol almost continually, but it was almost always very watered-down whiskey and soda), "Bessie, my dear, you are ugly, and what's more, you're disgustingly ugly. But tomorrow I shall be sober, and you will still be disgustingly ugly".
@@Edmonton-of2ec well not entirely unknown......way before the Netherlands was the Netherlands it was actually named holland. like way back when part of Belgium was with the Netherlands. So I guess that must have stuck around or something lol
1:00 - Chapter 1 - Formative years 4:15 - Chapter 2 - Military service & war correspondent 7:20 - Chapter 3 - Early years in parliament 10:15 - Chapter 4 - Personal life 13:05 - Chapter 5 - The darkest hour 16:20 - Chapter 6 - The end of an era
8:20 ...o.t.o.h. the Gallipoli-disaster showed Churchill and the generals how NOT to do an amphious landing...! It was a very useful but also very bloody lesson...! Avoiding the Mistakes from Gallipoli saved thousands of lives later on D-Day...!
So glad someone brought this up. Millions of British subjects starved to death, and Churchill claimed it was their own fault for 'breeding like rabbits'...the great socialist, right.
Alan Brown the Bengal famine only happened because of the scorched earth policy from the Japanese. The Japanese burnt every crop, every valuable resource from where they retreated so ofc a famine is gonna start.
@@frogchip6484 Churchill and his cabinet were warned repeatedly that further export of rice out of Bengal would push the population into famine...they WERE producing food but Churchill insisted it be exported for the war effort leaving the people with nothing to feed themselves with. Another move by the Cabinet was to remove huge supplies of rice and thousands of boats from the coasts to prevent it falling into Japanese hands. The Viceroy of India requested emergency wheat supplies in 1942 and 43 but Churchill not only denied these requests but also continued to take the rice from them and export to other places in the Empire hoarding war resources.
K that’s because of the Japanese convoy raiding. If Churchill purposely starved the Indians, how come he desperately asked Roosevelt to help with the food situation in India by allocating certain ships to help sent food to India? Churchill took the rice from where there was no famine as it was needed to feed those in Britain for example, considering hundreds of thousands had lost their homes during the Battle of Britain.
@@frogchip6484 To begin, you are wrong about scorched earth...it was the BRITISH that burnt every crop to prevent the Japanese from getting hold of it. Churchill initially refused aid for Bengal offered by the U.S and Canada, Australian supply ships even asked if they could drop some supplies off at Bengal but again Churchill refused. The British evicted nearly 200, 000 farmers and took their land for army bases. Churchill banned shipping and trade in the area, knowing full well the Bengali people relied heavily on the bay trade. India were still expected to export their food for the war effort, exporting 70,000 tonnes of grain out of India in the first 6 months of 1943, (enough to feed thousands for a year)....leaving the people with nothing. During this time Britain had 18.5 million tonnes of stock piled food and materials..while Bengali parents were killing their own children and commiting suicide to escape starving to death! None in Britain knew about the famine..until, in August 1943,The Statesman, an English newspaper reported on the famine and published photographs ...only then did Churchill go begging to Roosevelt...who refused him at that time claiming he could not divert supply vessels to Bengal. Two and a half million Indian soldiers fought for the Brits in WW2..while their families starved to death. Churchill created the famine with his policies and his stubborn refusal of food aid for the area offered by Canada and Australia!!
@nikesback holland is another word people (incorrectly) use to describe the netherlands, so what he basically said was “the netherlands, belgium and the netherlands”. i think he meant to say “luxembourg, belgium and the netherlands”.
Winston Churchill's funeral was basically started by British Railways, who used a Bulleid 4-6-2 Pacific numbered 34051 of the Battle of Britain class named "Winston Churchill", (go figure). The engine named after Churchill and the car his coffin was carried in is preserved by the National Railway Museum of York.
Not at all disregrading all that he did, Winston Churchill was extremely unjust, unfair and even cruel (at every step) to Indians....to the extent that many Indians feel the hate came from a deep racist mindset...towards Indians The presence of a Hitler and Stalin in the same era may show him as a saviour, even on high moral ground....but numerous incidents and decisions he took prove he was nowhere close to the apostle of democracy that his countrymen believe (though they have every right to). He just benefitted from his times....
Great man... Still enjoy thinking about when a woman came up to him and said, "You are the Prime Minister and you are drunk!" Churchill's response, "I'm drunk and your ugly but I'll be sober in the morning!" I think Id rather have him than "Cham'Berlin" during the war. What do you think Shell/Simon?
Churchill's mother was a US citizen therefore making him a US Citizen by blood; he had dual citizenship although it might not have been recognized at the time.
Not gonna lie Simon, I still get a swell of pride and a lump in my throat watching this. Thank you. Ps. "Wouldn't it be nice if the people of Hong Kong had human rights?"
A great video, but very obviously done by someone who admires Churchill. No mention of some of the darkest parts of history in which he played a role, the Bengal famine, the Algiers incident, etc... still, good stuff. Keep up the great work.
@@Wingo537 he was busy whooping the white asses of the idiots in London. For one old man he really did scare all pale white buttocks in the Buckingham palace.
This was probably the most thin episode you have made on this channel. It could have easily been a half hour video, maybe longer, even with your quick cadence. There was a lot of this man's life you missed, both good and bad.
Churchill is revered as a WW hero who led allies to victory against Germans. No doubt he did a great job but world must know he was the cause of the genocide in India. India was a British colony during The war. In 1943, up to four million Bengalis (people from a state of west Bengal) starved to death when Winston Churchill diverted food to British soldiers and countries such as Greece while a deadly famine swept through Bengal. Talking about the Bengal famine in 1943, Churchillsaid: “I hate Indians. They are a beastly people with a beastly religion. So yes, he had blood on his hand too. He was our Hitler, Himmler, Goering etc😠
What would you expect any country to do when it's facing a block that controls most of the continent its on. If India/your home country if you're from somewhere else had say a colony separated a long distance by sea while in a simular scenario what would you want them to do, risk resources that could be used on the war effort by transporting them in vulnerable waters, or prioritise winning the war to maintain your peoples freedom. Especially, if we consider (as those who believe the Japanese where better have pointed out in the comments) sections of the population from said colony are supporting and for them. If you consider the moral duty a countries leader has to ensure the well-being of its citizens against a belligerent power (yes Germany didn't declare on the UK but it was the belligerent against Poland who it had been warned would be protected/aided) such an action becomes less morally black and white. I'll still admit the man did have abhorrent views on race, but I think given the context of the actions, one may wish to focus on the views he held rather than the actual actions, given that in such a war, there's doubts that any leader would act differently, while also realistically ensuring their people did not get conquered/making sure the war was being ran as effectively as it could to ensure a successful defence.
I love this channel, it is illuminating, and incisive condensed information that helps one to understand the social environment that we have grown up in-- and human behavior in all of its variations! Kudos!!
He would be an excellent statesman and a boon to Britain in every way. There is no politician anywhere in the world who is anywhere near his quality today. The best PM you've had since him was Margaret Thatcher, and since the Iron Lady, you've had...nobody worth mentioning. At least that lunatic Corbyn isn't PM. May isn't great by any means, but considering the alternative...
I don't see anything wrong with that, except possibly that nowadays poison gas isn't considered acceptable. As for the rest, yeah, what he said about American Indians and Australian aboriginals is pretty much dead on. The fact that he said it in terms that aren't PC doesn't make it any less true. What he says about the Irish is also absolutely correct. Ireland has been under the British Crown since Henry II. The refusal of the Irish to behave in a civilized manner and admit that they're British has been one of the worst problems in the Western World. As for his opinions on Indians, so what? The fact remains he was arguably the greatest man of the 20th century, whatever your foolish ethnic quibbles about him.
First, I'm American. Second, you have been British since the 12th century, your language is English, Gaelic is a dead language that has been artificially preserved for some reason or other, you are ethnically and culturally virtually identical (except for the part where the British can behave themselves and manage not to riot or bomb people for having slightly different religious beliefs). So Most of Ireland didn't go along with the reformation. So what? The Scots admit they're British, and they're Presbyterians. You can be Catholic and British just as easily as you can be Presbyterian and British, there's no Guy Fawkes running around or whatever nonsense from centuries ago. Pretending that Ireland is some separate country is ridiculous, and the British never should have given in to the IRA terrorist thugs.
Churchill started the Land Battleship project which resulted in the invention of the Tank in WW1, the Landing ship tank in WWII, and advocated the Escort carrier. All Major War winning technical innovations .
@Charlie Botterell no the empire was not independent they were ‘dominions ‘ which had their own government ot control the state but it still supplied and was answerable to The UK also the dominions were ‘canada , australia , india and new zealand’
You guys ignored, lietrally avoided eveything churchill put Indians through. Would you have done same with hitler and stalin's videos???? No. You didn't do it. Just says our lives don't matter as much as others, ir never did and never will for you people.
Nobody care much about Indians except Indians and Pakistanis. Never have, never will. As far as the legacy of old Winston goes, his dealings in the less developed parts of the British Empire, questeniable as they might have been, are bordering to being irrelevant in the bigger picture.
I think the view of his mother put forward is not quite right. His ability to go where he wanted during his early military service was due to her pulling strings for him. If he had not been able to report from Cuba during the Spanish American War he would have most certainly not have been chosen to write in South Africa.
Holland is two provinces within the Netherlands, Noord-Holland and Zuid-Holland. The Netherlands is commonly called Holland, but Simon wasn't incorrect.
Time magazine awarded its "Person of the Century" award to Albert Einstein. I disagree. I thought that it should have been a slam dunk for Winston Churchill for leading England in the year that they stood alone against Nazi Germany and their ally Stalin's USSR. Without that year, there are times I wonder where the rest of the century might have gone.
One of the most underrated understood figure of history and in his life who reshaped and is still reshaping the destinies of generations who came after him and the ones who have come after his them.
Don't forget to mention that this guy thought Indians were beastly, bred like rabbits and caused the Bengal famine which killed around 4 million people!
Hitler, Stalin, Leopold 2 are all horrible people but Churchill is/was a Hero ... Wowwww... If you can't keep your prejudices aside and do a fair job ... Just don't upload any more videos... It's ethically wrong ... What is the difference between a paid media outlet and you!! I used to follow all your channels religiously ... I know every upload of yours has some incorrect info but I used to feel its OK we are all humans but this video showed your true colors... I'm sorry but that's the truth my friend :(
Churchill sent Mr. Whistler over to mainland Europe during WW2. Mr. Whistler decimated all the NAZI aggressors that he faced. In one battle, using just his bare hands, Mr. Whistler defeated a entire NAZI army in 30 minutes.
One time when Churchill was taking a piss, a labour politician approached him and began peeing in the urinal uncomfortably close to him. Churchill made a pace over. The labour politician asked, "Mr. Churchill, why did you move?". Churchill responded, "Because everytime you see something big you want to nationalize it"
Ever since I asked, I have waited. And now I wait no more, I am not disappointed. Thanks guys. One question though, do you think Churchill was a good man?
Depends on who you ask. He did help Britain against the Nazis, though his imperialist mindset caused food shortages in India. He was also fearless but that fearlessness made him almost start a third world war vs the USSR. He was a made for the moment but was not the man after the moment, as he was kicked out of the Prime minister's seat as soon as the war was over and his second run as prime minister was not as popular as his first and soon lost it. As the video says he was a complicated man as all great men are.
What am I not understanding about this guy Surely if you hate nazis you hate genocide this guy was the most genocidal man in Britain s history In two world wars and colonial campaigns he caused the death of more innocents than anyone including Hitler I’m honestly not trying to antagonize you
Tha Barnstormer well I see where your making the mistake. Causing death and commuting Genocide are not the same. Genocide requires purposeful attempts at extermination. And in Golipili he got the blame despite not being entirely at fault
A lot of arbitrary borders was set up by British bureaucrats with long rules on a map - completely ignoring the populations living there. But that was the Empire for you. A lot og English long for that past, which is why they voted to Brexit
Ah yes we voted for Brexit because we like fucking up lines of maps and creating countries out of thin air. Definitely. Nothing at all to do with wanting to have full control of our laws, protect our fisheries, have more free trade, having total control of our borders and getting out of a creaking, corrupt, bureaucratic and undemocratic political block that will soon go the way of the Dodo that we pay a fortune to be member of. Yes, definitely the thing about maps...
i feel like u covered way too little of churchills dark sides, he was also a hardcore racist (even for his time where being racist was still kinda normal) and had many warcrimes and atrocities commited, not very unlike those of his enemies in ww2 at all. like ordering the bombardement of civillians using agent orange for example.
I think that Winston Churchill's greatest stroke of luck was that Neville Chamberlain did not survive WWII and left no memoir. Churchill vowed to "write the history books," and in large measure, he did. Moreover, he did it without either Chamberlain or Halifax arguing with him.
We attributed the wrong author/writer to this video. This was written by Crystal Sullivan.
How do I get her autograph?
Churchill was responsible for death of millions of Indians and called Indians as dogs. He might be a great leader but "his hand bear the blood of millions of Indians." This was not mentioned in the video
Mr Maverick The underlying causes of the famine include inefficient agricultural practices, over-population, and de-peasantisation through debt bondage and land grabbing. how was a man fighting a war of survival responsible for people breeding themselves into starvation?
Biographics my granddad whom was the danish ambassador in london was the person who brought churchill's elephants order back to copenhagen shortly after he passed PS the elephants order in Denmark is the highest order you can get and almost only the royals own them PPS you the danish government requires you to give back your orders after you pass away. FuN sTorIE RIIiiiiiGht
Can u do one on Suleiman the magnificent ( the Lawgiver ) ? please??
Imagine being 14 when Jack The Ripper killed his victims in london and living up to hear The Beatles
jack the ripper lived in the late victorian British island
around 60 years apart from the beatles
it's not long ago
😂😂😂
@@gutsjoestar7450 70* and churchill was already 14 so it's still interesting for me.
Watched a video of an old man on an American tv show from the 50s who was the last living witness to the assassination of President Lincoln which I found astounding
While smoking cigars and drinking whisky
my favorite quote from Churchill:
“I cannot live without champagne. In Victory I deserve it, in defeat I need it”.
My kind of person....
Hear ! Hear !
And to ignore the harsh reality of Bengal famine
@@tuskular yes at that time french were ruling india
@@tuskular then why he shifted supplies of food grains to army even though there was surplus food for army and bengal famine was the intention of britishers your nation hasn't achieved anything on its own its just you looted india and you became superpower even today British museum is full of stolen indian arts!
"You have enemies? Good! That means you've stood up for something in your life." -Sir Winston Churchill
#KeepCalmAndCarryOn!
That quote is Victor Hugo. SOE supremo Colin Gubbins coined the "Keep Calm" phrase. Absolutely terrifies me to think you probably paid to be educated.
Lol ...he killed millions of my ancestors.. Through starvation(The Great Bengal Famine).
Tirthankar Pandit nobody cares
@@smokedoofman4763 i know but i will not let u forget..may god bless you and get well soon
@@tirthankarpandit7009 yeah he was kind of a racist asshole when you look back on it, but he was a strong leader and a major player in taking out the Nazis.
14:17 "...Holland, Belgium, and the Netherlands." Hitler invaded the Netherlands so hard that he invaded them twice
Yeah and he tried to invade England and the UK.🤣🤣🤣😂😂🤣🤣🤣
@@PetriDishB I think you missed the joke. Maybe you should study history before you comment. Like I did, I am a history teacher. An awfull lot of Brits got killed at Dunkirk and further up the coast. Trying to draw German fire of the main group. If Churchill hadn't had the brilliant idea to send the fleet of pleasure vessels a lot more Brits would have been killed. Hitler definitly planned to invade England the RAF stopped him.
@@PetriDishB "Never wanted to". Completely wrong. Hitler very much wanted to conquer the British Isles and force them to sue for peace allowing a one front war against the USSR. He build invasion craft and the Luftwaffe's' job was to gain air supremacy to allow for the invasion.
@@PetriDishB ever heard of the battle of Britain?
VIC RATTLEHEAD \,,/
Churchill jumping off a bridge and taking the injury instead of surrendering to defeat is so true of his character
Yea that sounds like him so much
Also, in spite of the mild speech impediment, he was a brilliant speaker and a rapier wit. One of my favorite quotes of his, in reference to his support of Stalin against the Nazis despite his being a fervent anticommunist: "If Hitler invaded Hell, I would at least make favorable reference to the Devil in the House of Commons".
Churchill was bribed to destroy Europe and the Bitish Empire by Strakosch.
@marksneddon Yes , he was a staunch anti-communist , how does that in any way imply regret for doing everything in his power to defeat the Nazis ? what are you talking about ?
also honestly a good comparison, and makes it pretty obvious just how much he hated Stalin, Hitler was the greater threat at that point and he knew it
_"I never ‘worry’ about action, but only about inaction."_
-Winston Churchill
*Laughs in Calvin Coolidge*
“We proceeded systematically, village by village, and we destroyed the houses, filled up the wells, blew down the towers, cut down the great shady trees, burned the crops and broke the reservoirs in punitive devastation.” - Churchill on how the British carried on in Afghanistan, and he was only too happy to be part of it.
@@riohenry1455 yeah, we get it. Stfu.
Yeah actions that killed millions..
@@riohenry1455 it was propaganda written by him. Theres a thing called war propaganda
My favourite Churchill quote. The second-worst thing in the history of Russia was the birth of Lenin. The worst thing in her history was the death of Lenin.
Churchill will be cry this
@Chiranth Anand It's not contradictory. He means that while Lenin and his actions were pretty bad, him dying made everything worse because his successor (Stalin) was allowed into power.
@@sirdiesalot2975 wouldn’t that mean starlin being born was worst
@@thelegendthemyththeman4772 no because stalin wasnt the major man behind the revolution... don't get me wrong he was also important but lenin and trotsky were the much bigger driving force behind the revolution
so thus no lenin = no stalin
which in the end makes the Statement valid again
"We shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender.”
But you missed one of his best quotes "I may be drunk but you are ugly I will be sober in the morning, you will still be ugly" Winston Churchill
17:37 Being a teenager myself, my brain genuinely hurts after hearing that. I have no idea how people thought that my boi Winston Churchill was a fictional character, i'm outraged!
He means his achievements were so big it didnt fit well in our reality. Or something like that.
Those were the ones who didn’t pay attention in history class.
That 1/5 must have been the youth of London
Bloody bastards forgot about old Winston. After being their prime minister! Oh well we shall hope they will be wiser in our future
Worry not. Less than a score of years is but the beginning of learning, of which there is more and more for each succeeding generation to do. Those same 'illiterates' have much they could teach me I'm sure and I have more than three score to my credit.
My favorite quote from churchill is "when you're going through hell go straight through it".
He was truly fearless and one of a kind
World War 2 was probably the best thing that could’ve happened to Churchill, if it wasn’t for WW2 his legacy probably would have been his botching of the Gallipoli Campaign.
Inquisitor Thomas not just Gallipoli. But he was the right man at the right time when it came to ww2.
Or... did his eminence from the war years simply highlight a chapter in history that juxtaposes his later success? If not for WW2, perhaps the Churchill/Gallipoli connection would only be the stuff of trivia buffs and historic scholars and the name Churchill would be an historic obscurity.
Not many military leaders achieve fame for high-profile blunders. Some may even argue that Gallipoli wasn't necessarily a tactical blunder if you consider it was a huge risk made in desperation to alleviate the gridlock of the western front. But there is certainly no arguing that where it was a monumental botch, was that of an Empire's arrogance in its cost in human life.
And sending the Black and Tans to Ireland.
ww2 galipolli ????? Try and get your facts right try ww1idiot
He was out classed by Ataturk and the Turkish people at Galipoli. Only difference is, we are taught about Churchill but never Ataturk
His final words " I'm bored with it all".
Truly an amazing life.
He said I'm tired with it all
truly he lived, i suppose that's the line we all ultimately strive for in our lives.
He's a hypocrite
@@UserHandle454 --?
@@UserHandle454 everyone is
He essentially attempted suicide to avoid losing a kids game
I wouldn't say suicide - he probably wasn't aiming to kill himself - he just cared more about winning than self preservation, seems.
Because Churchill would NEVER SURRENDER!
Losing was never an option
It's what he calls a pro-gamer move.
My favourite Churchill quote comes from Yalta. "Comrade Stalins foreign policy is based on peace." Then to Roosevelt out of the interpreters earshot. "A piece of Poland, a piece of Hungary, a piece of Bulgaria."
topography isn't mapmaking, topography is the study of the terrain of an area, mapmaking is cartography
*me,an idiot* what
And what is topography used for? Making maps. 😂
I was wondering when you'd get around to Churchill. He was such a major figure in 20th century history you couldn't avoid covering him at some point. The second World War could have turned out very differently without him as the leader of Britain at that point in history. Great videos on this channel. XD
No it couldn't.
Dsdcain He caused ww2 ye dunmy.
Mark Harrison lmao care to explain or are you pulling a toddler?
The Axis did not have the resources or the economic/industrial/military capacities to carry out a long war against the British Empire.
Had the British not allied with the Russians (Churchill's decision) Nazi Germany may have taken the caucuses complete with the natural resources they needed...
A poll was done of the British people a while back, asking who was the greatest Briton that ever lived. The vote was almost unanimously in favor of Winston Churchill.
There was a show about the most important person from the 19c and Alan Turing won
Gaming General well that’s not right considering Turing was born in the 20th century
Luke S my mistake 20c
Cos we all brain washed in school..Churchill was elitist evil through n through..
@marty rac Yes we should blame a man who lived seventy years ago for things that happened in the past fifteen years makes sense.
Where would the UK or the USA without him? It shows us that even in our imperfections we can do great things.
Likely England would have come under Nazi control, reinstalled Edward as king and attempted to assert control over the commonwealth. The USA would in turn quite likely have invaded Canada to prevent having an enemy at their doorstep. The cold war would have been with a german occupied Europe rather than Stalin’s Russia. Who knows what Europe would look like today, but it’s possible the North America would be a single unified country.
The whole world in fact. Especially Europe
@MartyrX you seem to have forgotten the part of history where his predecessor was ready to capitulate
@MartyrX that’s just ridiculous
@@trevorj79 That was genuinely the US plan, to invade Canada in the event of Germany defeating Britain.
hitler invaded holland, belgium and the Netherlands....uuuhhmm...holland is a part of the netherlands. its one of its 12 provincines. i love the video's.
TomEnGames probably meant Luxembourg
The pronunciation of Gallipoli was also...interesting.
It's north Holland and south Holland not just holland
Holland is another name for the Netherlands, we do have indeed two (of our 12 provinces) called North-Holland (Amsterdam, Haarlem, Alkmaar etc.) and South-Holland (Rotterdam, Den Haag, Leiden, etc).
Scheer hem
This is my new favorite channel. No doubt I'll put off precious sleep clicking on more videos. You're a brilliant man, Simon. I can't commend you enough for your fascinating work. Thank you!
I just found him it's amazing videos
Learning about Churchill’s personal life just made me admire him a lot more. I would’ve never thought that under the tough man there was a sweet loving father and husband who had such an emotionally rough childhood.
well, he missed the part where churchill coordinated an air assault on a US naval base in hawaii. december 7, 1941 if youre having trouble finding it
@@bigploppa154 what 😂
@@HistoryMadeSimple90 Churchill was the greatest axis general ever. let Coventry fall, let Pearl Harbor get bombed, let Singapore fall, and starved millions of Indians. nevermind the amount of Indian and Australian soldiers he had killed
“You can always count on Americans to do the right thing, after they’ve tried everything else.”
-my favorite quote
The people tearing his statue down now would have bent over for the Nazis.
It's still there...
They failed to tear it down because ex royal marines showed up to protect it
They wouldn’t have been alive to bend over for the Nazis……
They should be kissing the feet of Churchill’s statue for that.
Winston Churchill: the queens most loyal knight.
King’s* King George VI was ruling when Churchill became prime minister
@@ThatSherbieGuy he also was PM between 1950-1955 and Queen Elizabeth became queen in 1952
He may have not been the hero they wanted at the time but he's the hero we need. May Churchill never be forgotten.
Love these videos. Why do you have so many drones though?!
Wait, what? 😂
@@theparadigm8149 , on the left side of the screen, hanging on the wall are drone helicopters and the controls for them. Maybe as someone else pointed out, in his spare time he bombs Iraq, who knows.
@@ndogg20 LOL! 😆
Maybe he does use them for bombings!
Hmm, you're usually a lot more subjective in these videos, you've left out most of the horrible things he did and only focused on the good things.
Alot more objective you mean, objective.
every country has their own blood deal with it
Jack C, indeed. Like the the Black and Tans during the irish war of independence and the bengal famine of 1943
Francisco MM like the bengal famine, in which he tried to get Canada and the us to ship food to, and ended up getting Australia to ship food to them after the first two couldn’t due to, well, the danger of long distance shipping in the middle of a world war. It wasn’t like he purposely had the bengals starve
@@franciscomm7675 ah yes, requesting Canada and Australia to ship food to India during the Bengal famine was indeed incredibly racist of him. Let's not forget that the shortage was in part due to Ghandi's supporters undermining the government at the time, or the fact that Britain was already hard pressed for resources, it was all Churchill 's fault.
Female Cabinet member to Churchill: Sir, if you were my husband, I would poison your Coffee.
Churchill: Madam, if you were my wife, I would drink it!
It is also, sadly, fictional (see Andrew Robert's biography Walking With Destiny). He DID, however, utter the nearly as delicious retort, when being accused of being drunk "and what's more, disgustingly drunk" by Labor MP Bessie Braddock in 1946 (he was not drunk; he was simply very tired. WSC drank alcohol almost continually, but it was almost always very watered-down whiskey and soda), "Bessie, my dear, you are ugly, and what's more, you're disgustingly ugly. But tomorrow I shall be sober, and you will still be disgustingly ugly".
Ha that’s funny
When someone says Englishman, I see Churchill.
Visualize* know the difference.
When someone says Churchill, I see pig
@@derekweinerttv4163 fair enough
"Holland, Belgium and the Netherlands"? isn't Holland part of the Netherlands?
no the Netherlands are Holland
Simon doesn't let facts get in the way of telling a story.
And Belgium is a very beautiful city in the Europian counrty of Brussels... according to Donald Trump
The Netherlands is often referred to as Holland, for reason unknown.....
@@Edmonton-of2ec well not entirely unknown......way before the Netherlands was the Netherlands it was actually named holland. like way back when part of Belgium was with the Netherlands. So I guess that must have stuck around or something lol
1:00 - Chapter 1 - Formative years
4:15 - Chapter 2 - Military service & war correspondent
7:20 - Chapter 3 - Early years in parliament
10:15 - Chapter 4 - Personal life
13:05 - Chapter 5 - The darkest hour
16:20 - Chapter 6 - The end of an era
8:20 ...o.t.o.h. the Gallipoli-disaster showed Churchill and the generals how NOT to do an amphious landing...!
It was a very useful but also very bloody lesson...!
Avoiding the Mistakes from Gallipoli saved thousands of lives later on D-Day...!
No mention of atrocities sanctioned in the Indian Sub-Continent. This is certainly not an objective account of Churchill and selective.
So glad someone brought this up. Millions of British subjects starved to death, and Churchill claimed it was their own fault for 'breeding like rabbits'...the great socialist, right.
Alan Brown the Bengal famine only happened because of the scorched earth policy from the Japanese. The Japanese burnt every crop, every valuable resource from where they retreated so ofc a famine is gonna start.
@@frogchip6484 Churchill and his cabinet were warned repeatedly that further export of rice out of Bengal would push the population into famine...they WERE producing food but Churchill insisted it be exported for the war effort leaving the people with nothing to feed themselves with. Another move by the Cabinet was to remove huge supplies of rice and thousands of boats from the coasts to prevent it falling into Japanese hands. The Viceroy of India requested emergency wheat supplies in 1942 and 43 but Churchill not only denied these requests but also continued to take the rice from them and export to other places in the Empire hoarding war resources.
K that’s because of the Japanese convoy raiding. If Churchill purposely starved the Indians, how come he desperately asked Roosevelt to help with the food situation in India by allocating certain ships to help sent food to India?
Churchill took the rice from where there was no famine as it was needed to feed those in Britain for example, considering hundreds of thousands had lost their homes during the Battle of Britain.
@@frogchip6484 To begin, you are wrong about scorched earth...it was the BRITISH that burnt every crop to prevent the Japanese from getting hold of it. Churchill initially refused aid for Bengal offered by the U.S and Canada, Australian supply ships even asked if they could drop some supplies off at Bengal but again Churchill refused. The British evicted nearly 200, 000 farmers and took their land for army bases. Churchill banned shipping and trade in the area, knowing full well the Bengali people relied heavily on the bay trade. India were still expected to export their food for the war effort, exporting 70,000 tonnes of grain out of India in the first 6 months of 1943, (enough to feed thousands for a year)....leaving the people with nothing. During this time Britain had 18.5 million tonnes of stock piled food and materials..while Bengali parents were killing their own children and commiting suicide to escape starving to death! None in Britain knew about the famine..until, in August 1943,The Statesman, an English newspaper reported on the famine and published photographs ...only then did Churchill go begging to Roosevelt...who refused him at that time claiming he could not divert supply vessels to Bengal. Two and a half million Indian soldiers fought for the Brits in WW2..while their families starved to death. Churchill created the famine with his policies and his stubborn refusal of food aid for the area offered by Canada and Australia!!
Finally, been waiting for Churchill
“hitler invaded holland, belgium, and the netherlands.”
jokes aside though, great episode!
@nikesback holland is another word people (incorrectly) use to describe the netherlands, so what he basically said was “the netherlands, belgium and the netherlands”. i think he meant to say “luxembourg, belgium and the netherlands”.
Winston Churchill's funeral was basically started by British Railways, who used a Bulleid 4-6-2 Pacific numbered 34051 of the Battle of Britain class named "Winston Churchill", (go figure). The engine named after Churchill and the car his coffin was carried in is preserved by the National Railway Museum of York.
Roosevelt and Churchill: the bromance all other bromances try to be
Not at all disregrading all that he did, Winston Churchill was extremely unjust, unfair and even cruel (at every step) to Indians....to the extent that many Indians feel the hate came from a deep racist mindset...towards Indians
The presence of a Hitler and Stalin in the same era may show him as a saviour, even on high moral ground....but numerous incidents and decisions he took prove he was nowhere close to the apostle of democracy that his countrymen believe (though they have every right to).
He just benefitted from his times....
Great man... Still enjoy thinking about when a woman came up to him and said, "You are the Prime Minister and you are drunk!" Churchill's response, "I'm drunk and your ugly but I'll be sober in the morning!" I think Id rather have him than "Cham'Berlin" during the war. What do you think Shell/Simon?
My favorite was "If Hitler invaded Hell, I would at least make favorable reference to the Devil in the House of Commons"
Evan Friend Indeed, that was pretty good as well!
_"I hate Indians!They are a beastly people with a beastly religion!"_- Winston Churchill
Charlie K Feel better that u got the exact wording out?
Luke Zuzga Lady Astor, "If you were my husband, I'd poison your coffee!" Winston Churchill, "If you were my wife, I'd drink it!"
Churchill's mother was a US citizen therefore making him a US Citizen by blood; he had dual citizenship although it might not have been recognized at the time.
Couldn't that mean he could become a president if he somehow wanted to?
Damn,that's pretty cool.
@@bones3439 no
@@presence9745 how so
@@bones3439 You have to born in the U.S. c'mon you know that😔
@@presence9745 Tell that To Ted Cruz!
I very much enjoy all Biographic videos, but I especially enjoyed the one about Winston Churchill.
Hitler invaded Holland Belgium and the Netherlands... Did he invade us twice... Holland and the Netherlands are the same country 😂
Surprising that his role in great bengal famine is ignored. For Indians, he was a mass murderer but it seems that he has written the history himself!.
This "Lion" killed 3 million people in 1943 Bengal famine
Churchill greatest prime minister
Not gonna lie Simon, I still get a swell of pride and a lump in my throat watching this. Thank you.
Ps.
"Wouldn't it be nice if the people of Hong Kong had human rights?"
Please do sir Ian Fleming Simon, that would be great.
Lady Nancy Astor once said to Churchill “ if you were my husband I would poison your tea” Churchill replied “if I was your husband I’d drink it”
"History is written by winners. And winners lie"
You rather live under the nazis
@@thomasmatthewharris1980 you live under the lie . Bekuf insaan
A great video, but very obviously done by someone who admires Churchill. No mention of some of the darkest parts of history in which he played a role, the Bengal famine, the Algiers incident, etc... still, good stuff. Keep up the great work.
Christopher Griffin leaving out his crimes is irresponsible.
Between the Panels dude chill my guy
@@dsodragon8152 he has a point though. Why hasn't ghandi died then?
@@Wingo537 he was busy whooping the white asses of the idiots in London. For one old man he really did scare all pale white buttocks in the Buckingham palace.
@@kakyoin9688 I don't think he would have traveled 5000km south just to fight with Indians.
As always, a very interesting and informative video. Thank you for sharing your amazing video
I got teary when Simon talked about his funeral. You earned it Churchill.
Sure but also did you know that Churchill killed millions of Indians and had racist thoughts?😊
One of his great hobbies was also hating Indians....
Great leader, but so was Genghis Khan so...
I'm American, and this brought a legitimate tear to my eye. Truely, a great man. We could only be so lucky to see more like him in the future.
Ah yes, the great man who caused the Bengal famine which killed up to 3 million people.
@@avinashvaluveri3903 he drew food away from a colony to feed his own country, you'd do the same
@@gearyt2355 ok what about the hit squads and the open racism?
@@ivoxvxi7482 WHAT! A MAN BORN IN THE MID TO LATE 1800'S WAS A RACIST! HOW COULD THIS BE?
@@ivoxvxi7482 also the hit squads were a smart military division that literally all countries, even the less developed ones, took advantage of
This was probably the most thin episode you have made on this channel. It could have easily been a half hour video, maybe longer, even with your quick cadence. There was a lot of this man's life you missed, both good and bad.
True
Daniel Duncan they conveniently brushed over his ugly side. Pathetic.
I did say, quoting myself, "both good and bad".
@@betweenthepanels9145 ugly side?
@@R0B0TUK he was a massive racist. Caused a famine. Look it up yourself.
Churchill is revered as a WW hero who led allies to victory against Germans. No doubt he did a great job but world must know he was the cause of the genocide in India. India was a British colony during The war.
In 1943, up to four million Bengalis (people from a state of west Bengal) starved to death when Winston Churchill diverted food to British soldiers and countries such as Greece while a deadly famine swept through Bengal. Talking about the Bengal famine in 1943, Churchillsaid: “I hate Indians. They are a beastly people with a beastly religion. So yes, he had blood on his hand too. He was our Hitler, Himmler, Goering etc😠
yeah but if he hadnt diverted food to europe billions of people wouldve died in the worst case scenario
Easy rationalization to make if one isn't Bengalis.
What would you expect any country to do when it's facing a block that controls most of the continent its on. If India/your home country if you're from somewhere else had say a colony separated a long distance by sea while in a simular scenario what would you want them to do, risk resources that could be used on the war effort by transporting them in vulnerable waters, or prioritise winning the war to maintain your peoples freedom. Especially, if we consider (as those who believe the Japanese where better have pointed out in the comments) sections of the population from said colony are supporting and for them. If you consider the moral duty a countries leader has to ensure the well-being of its citizens against a belligerent power (yes Germany didn't declare on the UK but it was the belligerent against Poland who it had been warned would be protected/aided) such an action becomes less morally black and white. I'll still admit the man did have abhorrent views on race, but I think given the context of the actions, one may wish to focus on the views he held rather than the actual actions, given that in such a war, there's doubts that any leader would act differently, while also realistically ensuring their people did not get conquered/making sure the war was being ran as effectively as it could to ensure a successful defence.
The fact that the video is actually 19:15 minutes long is triggering me!
True, they could have added 25 seconds, dammit.
Public school = Private school in England.
I love this channel, it is illuminating, and incisive condensed information that helps one to understand the social environment that we have grown up in-- and human behavior in all of its variations! Kudos!!
Perhaps you should also have pointed out that he was a deplorable and remorseless mass murderer
HOLLAND , Belgium and THE NETHERLANDS? 14:18
Churchill really was larger than life itself. I wish the U.K. had a prime minister like him now.
It would be a total disaster in just about every way. Feel free to vote for the EDL next election though.
He would be an excellent statesman and a boon to Britain in every way. There is no politician anywhere in the world who is anywhere near his quality today. The best PM you've had since him was Margaret Thatcher, and since the Iron Lady, you've had...nobody worth mentioning. At least that lunatic Corbyn isn't PM. May isn't great by any means, but considering the alternative...
I don't see anything wrong with that, except possibly that nowadays poison gas isn't considered acceptable. As for the rest, yeah, what he said about American Indians and Australian aboriginals is pretty much dead on. The fact that he said it in terms that aren't PC doesn't make it any less true. What he says about the Irish is also absolutely correct. Ireland has been under the British Crown since Henry II. The refusal of the Irish to behave in a civilized manner and admit that they're British has been one of the worst problems in the Western World. As for his opinions on Indians, so what? The fact remains he was arguably the greatest man of the 20th century, whatever your foolish ethnic quibbles about him.
First, I'm American. Second, you have been British since the 12th century, your language is English, Gaelic is a dead language that has been artificially preserved for some reason or other, you are ethnically and culturally virtually identical (except for the part where the British can behave themselves and manage not to riot or bomb people for having slightly different religious beliefs). So Most of Ireland didn't go along with the reformation. So what? The Scots admit they're British, and they're Presbyterians. You can be Catholic and British just as easily as you can be Presbyterian and British, there's no Guy Fawkes running around or whatever nonsense from centuries ago. Pretending that Ireland is some separate country is ridiculous, and the British never should have given in to the IRA terrorist thugs.
OH HELL NO. we indians aren't gonna be filled with starving famines again.
Churchill started the Land Battleship project which resulted in the invention of the Tank in WW1, the Landing ship tank in WWII, and advocated the Escort carrier. All Major War winning technical innovations .
Kinda disappointed he left out the Bengal famine which killed many millions
"Holland, Belgium, and The Netherlands"
UM
I never knew about Churchill as a person. Such a warrior. Always to be free. Thank you so much
Funny how they make Britain to be such a small island nation all alone against Germany. People forget they were a whole empire.
Kevin If a parasite attacks and kills the brain, the whole body becomes useless.
@@spicygas OK and? Germany didn't "kill the brain." They still had a sprawling empire with a bunch of resources.
@@Kevin_TN that sprawling empire is considerd apart of Britain, it therefore make sense to say Britain stands alone
The mainland 'Britain island' was the most susceptible to Germany's wrath due to it's close geographical location.
@Charlie Botterell no the empire was not independent they were ‘dominions ‘ which had their own government ot control the state but it still supplied and was answerable to The UK also the dominions were ‘canada , australia , india and new zealand’
You guys ignored, lietrally avoided eveything churchill put Indians through. Would you have done same with hitler and stalin's videos???? No. You didn't do it. Just says our lives don't matter as much as others, ir never did and never will for you people.
Nobody care much about Indians except Indians and Pakistanis. Never have, never will. As far as the legacy of old Winston goes, his dealings in the less developed parts of the British Empire, questeniable as they might have been, are bordering to being irrelevant in the bigger picture.
Given an Empire to look after that controlled about quarter of the world lost it - never has single man wasted so much wealth in such short a time
I think the view of his mother put forward is not quite right. His ability to go where he wanted during his early military service was due to her pulling strings for him. If he had not been able to report from Cuba during the Spanish American War he would have most certainly not have been chosen to write in South Africa.
Please through some light on Churchill role in Bengal great famine during ww2..
Ask the Japanese ...
@@johnclayden1670 The Japanese gave India its freedom.
@@markharrison2544 .. Just as they gave freedom to Manchuria, Burma, Singapore, Hong Kong, Philippines etc
@@johnclayden1670 That's right.
I laugh at bengal
the Netherlands and holand are the same place. what u ment to say was Belgium, Netherlands and luxembourg
Holland is two provinces within the Netherlands, Noord-Holland and Zuid-Holland. The Netherlands is commonly called Holland, but Simon wasn't incorrect.
try telling that to diane abbot
Very few people in history I admire as much as I admire Winston Churchill
Last time I checked, Netherlands and Holland the same place!? @14:18
Time magazine awarded its "Person of the Century" award to Albert Einstein. I disagree. I thought that it should have been a slam dunk for Winston Churchill for leading England in the year that they stood alone against Nazi Germany and their ally Stalin's USSR. Without that year, there are times I wonder where the rest of the century might have gone.
One of the most underrated understood figure of history and in his life who reshaped and is still reshaping the destinies of generations who came after him and the ones who have come after his them.
Frequency illusion; I was just thinking about Churchill and this film!
Don't forget to mention that this guy thought Indians were beastly, bred like rabbits and caused the Bengal famine which killed around 4 million people!
Churchill was a greatly flawed man, but then so are most men worthy of greatness. They are, after all, only human. Well, as far as we know anyway.
Not enough on his deep true coloniolist and racist views of the world.
shut up, just shut up.
State your "shut up" by explaining why or else silence
15:57
That just sounds adorable coming from a presidents mouth
Hitler, Stalin, Leopold 2 are all horrible people but Churchill is/was a Hero ... Wowwww... If you can't keep your prejudices aside and do a fair job ... Just don't upload any more videos... It's ethically wrong ... What is the difference between a paid media outlet and you!!
I used to follow all your channels religiously ... I know every upload of yours has some incorrect info but I used to feel its OK we are all humans but this video showed your true colors... I'm sorry but that's the truth my friend :(
If you can put internet conspiracies out of your tiny head, yes Churchill was a great man.
You sound like a STAN. Are you a STAN?
"Hitler invaded holland, Belgium and the Netherlands" i think you mean Luxembourg
Good job - History of the English speaking Peoples
Yes!!! I love this channel, and one of my favorite men to study is Churchill! Thanks for making this!
Lenny Fritz only if you knew about bengal famine
@@cardcode8345 he was crazy
@@cardcode8345 he didn’t the Japanese did
He was Britain’s Roosevelt and one of my favorite historical figure.
Mine too😊
Same. I love the man so much🧡
I love these bio videos, I only just discovered and see that I have a lot of good viewing ahead of me. Thank you for making these.
Churchill sent Mr. Whistler over to mainland Europe during WW2. Mr. Whistler decimated all the NAZI aggressors that he faced. In one battle, using just his bare hands, Mr. Whistler defeated a entire NAZI army in 30 minutes.
One time when Churchill was taking a piss, a labour politician approached him and began peeing in the urinal uncomfortably close to him. Churchill made a pace over. The labour politician asked, "Mr. Churchill, why did you move?".
Churchill responded, "Because everytime you see something big you want to nationalize it"
Ever since I asked, I have waited. And now I wait no more, I am not disappointed. Thanks guys. One question though, do you think Churchill was a good man?
The best of men.
Depends on who you ask. He did help Britain against the Nazis, though his imperialist mindset caused food shortages in India. He was also fearless but that fearlessness made him almost start a third world war vs the USSR. He was a made for the moment but was not the man after the moment, as he was kicked out of the Prime minister's seat as soon as the war was over and his second run as prime minister was not as popular as his first and soon lost it. As the video says he was a complicated man as all great men are.
What am I not understanding about this guy
Surely if you hate nazis you hate genocide this guy was the most genocidal man in Britain s history
In two world wars and colonial campaigns he caused the death of more innocents than anyone including Hitler
I’m honestly not trying to antagonize you
Tha Barnstormer well I see where your making the mistake. Causing death and commuting Genocide are not the same. Genocide requires purposeful attempts at extermination. And in Golipili he got the blame despite not being entirely at fault
No
Say what you want but that man kept England alive during it's darkest times.. he was an incredible person.
Of all of Churchill's wrongs, the creation of Iraq struck me as shortsighted
Divide and rule was a British policy, was creation of Pakistan a farsighted one.
A lot of arbitrary borders was set up by British bureaucrats with long rules on a map - completely ignoring the populations living there. But that was the Empire for you. A lot og English long for that past, which is why they voted to Brexit
Ah yes we voted for Brexit because we like fucking up lines of maps and creating countries out of thin air. Definitely. Nothing at all to do with wanting to have full control of our laws, protect our fisheries, have more free trade, having total control of our borders and getting out of a creaking, corrupt, bureaucratic and undemocratic political block that will soon go the way of the Dodo that we pay a fortune to be member of. Yes, definitely the thing about maps...
He was a product of his time. Just like EVERY historical figure. Give the man some slack...
''It is fun to be in the same decade with you''
I ship it...
In the southern Welsh valleys, he's best remembered for the "let them eat lead" quote. A monster.
Do Josip Broz "Tito" or Oda Nobunaga
i feel like u covered way too little of churchills dark sides, he was also a hardcore racist (even for his time where being racist was still kinda normal) and had many warcrimes and atrocities commited, not very unlike those of his enemies in ww2 at all. like ordering the bombardement of civillians using agent orange for example.
And wanting to use Anthrax on the German population.
4 million Indians died due to his racist view of society “bengal famine”.
He was crazy
I think that Winston Churchill's greatest stroke of luck was that Neville Chamberlain did not survive WWII and left no memoir. Churchill vowed to "write the history books," and in large measure, he did. Moreover, he did it without either Chamberlain or Halifax arguing with him.
That's right Yanks. Respect our Forces. They did something too...
Rayyan Altaf
What?