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D_C@sh.itjust.works 12 hours agoYep, same.
World War Two and Churchill was the only history I was taught that could be classed as being proud of. Everything else was more of a “look at all this bad shit we did” type scenario.
MountingSuspicion@reddthat.com 10 hours ago
Not British, but the standout things I know of Churchill are mostly related to the bengal famine and his staunch distaste of progressive social policy. I think people also thought he was a good speaker.
What’s he best known for over there?
Grail@multiverse.soulism.net 9 hours ago
Fighting the Nazis
MountingSuspicion@reddthat.com 6 hours ago
I always understood his opposition to be mainly about the fact they were targeting “the wrong people” and might eventually land on British shores.
Fighting nazis is obviously a good thing, I just wasn’t aware people thought he was uniquely good because of that.
Again, I am not British, so my understanding of his motivations are filtered by the pond between us.
Digestive_Biscuit@feddit.uk 6 hours ago
If he wasn’t pm during the war then he probably be another name nobody remembers in modern times.
He’s remembered because of the war. I’m sure wherever you’re from has similar figures in history, if not war ones, other significant changes which impacted people’s lives and becomes a figure head of that change. Whether it be good or bad.