If we're going to be coming to terms with the past, I think you'll find Churchill and Stalin were on the same side in defeating the Nazis and arguably the heavier work was done by the Soviets.The Churchill one always bemused me, the guy had a pivotal role in ensuring Britain and Europe don't fall to either Germany or communism and I can't stress enough, 2 of the most oppressive regimes with extreme ideologies who literally slaughtered millions and millions and routinely engaged in eugenics and genocide.
I really find it disturbing that no matter how racist he was in his notes by todays standards or how he served the imperial needs of his country is genuinely under the threat being censured from public life and depicted as this evil being , the man who helped to defeat the nazi's for God's sake.
Something similar is happening in America with abe Lincoln as well and while thankfully nowhere near as bad im regularly hearing from some of my more lefty friends that Lincoln is also undeserving of the honors bestowed upon him and we should reconsider his position in the national psyche, which i find baffling and a bit scary.
A nation who won't come to terms with its past has no future.
I think statues can't come close to conveying the complexities of these people. Although I wouldn't mind a statue of the two of them with "WTF lads?!" Under it.
The capacity for cruelty that statesmen showed was bewildering. Thankfully they marked and end to that old school expansionist imperialism on both sides and the FDR led post war climate was all more human. For a while.
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