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What accounts, then, for his elevation to a cult figure?
Winston Churchill: his times, his crimes (2022)
One could add that the manufactured love for Churchill, and the uses made of him, came to embody the nostalgia for an Empire that was long gone.
Winston Churchill: his times, his crimes (2022)
One of the worst criminals Europe ever produced was Leopold of Belgium, whose ownership of and brutalities in the Congo led to the deaths of several million Africans.
Winston Churchill: his times, his crimes (2022)
... importance of the Falklands conflict in re-launching Churchill.
Winston Churchill: his times, his crimes (2022)
Mukherjee's account makes absolutely clear that, in order to protect the (British) Raj from a Japanese threat that never materialized, the British state sacrificed the lives of some 5 million people. The war cabinet maintained an attitude of callous indifference. In Churchill's case, the indifference was strongly tinged with racism.
Winston Churchill: his times, his crimes (2022)
The Bengal famine was no natural disaster but 'the direct product of colonial and wartime ideologies and calculations that knowingly exposed the poor of Bengal to annihilation through deprivation'; 'a grievous crime was committed in broad daylight', one that is still unacknowledged.
Winston Churchill: his times, his crimes (2022)