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'''Winston Churchill''' (30 November 1874 – 24 January 1965) was a [[United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland|British]] [[Conservative and Unionist Party|Conservative Party]] politician who served as the [[Prime Minister of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland|Prime Minister of the United Kingdom]] twice, first from 1940 to 1945 and again from 1951 to 1955.  He presided over Britain throughout most of the [[Second World War]], the [[Bengal famine of 1943]] (a [[famine]] in present-day [[Republic of India|India]] and [[People's Republic of Bangladesh|Bangladesh]] which killed an estimated 3 million people), and the accession and coronation of [[Monarch of the United Kingdom|Queen]] [[Elizabeth Windsor|Elizabeth II]].
'''Winston Churchill''' (30 November 1874 – 24 January 1965) was a [[United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland|British]] [[Conservative and Unionist Party|Conservative Party]] politician who served as the [[Prime Minister of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland|Prime Minister of the United Kingdom]] twice, first from 1940 to 1945 and again from 1951 to 1955.  He presided over Britain throughout most of the [[Second World War]], the [[Bengal famine of 1943]] (a [[famine]] in present-day [[Republic of India|India]] and [[People's Republic of Bangladesh|Bangladesh]] which killed an estimated 3 million people), and the accession and coronation of [[Monarch of the United Kingdom|Queen]] [[Elizabeth Windsor|Elizabeth II]].


Churchill was a [[Racism|racist]], an [[Antisemitism|antisemite]],<ref name=":1" /> and an [[Imperialism|imperialist]]. He defended the [[Settler colonialism|colonisation]] of [[Australia]] and the [[Americas]], stating that the indigenous peoples were racially inferior.<ref>{{Citation|author=Martin Gilbert|year=1967|title=Winston S. Churchill: Companion Volume|title-url=https://archive.org/details/winstonschurchil5pt3chur/|chapter=The Coming of War, 1936–1939|page=616|quote=I do not admit, for instance, that a great wrong has been done to the Red Indians of America, or the black people of Australia. I do not admit that a wrong has been done to these people by the fact that a stronger race, a higher grade race, or, at any rate, a more worldly-wise race, to put it that way, has come in and taken their place.|city=London|publisher=Heinemann|isbn=0395245850|volume=5}}</ref> And during the 1943 famine in British-ruled Bengal, he blamed the Bengalis for "breeding like rabbits."<ref name=":0">{{News citation|author=Rakhi Chakraborty|newspaper=Yourstory|title=The Bengal Famine: How the British engineered the worst genocide in human history for profit|date=2014-08-15|url=https://yourstory.com/2014/08/bengal-famine-genocide/amp|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220102133617/https://yourstory.com/2014/08/bengal-famine-genocide/amp|archive-date=2022-01-02|retrieved=2022-05-15}}</ref>
Churchill was a [[Racism|racist]], an [[Antisemitism|antisemite]],<ref name=":1">{{Web citation|author=Winston Churchill|newspaper=Illustrated Sunday Herald|title=Zionism versus Bolshevism|date=1920-2-8|url=https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Zionism_versus_Bolshevism}}</ref> and an [[Imperialism|imperialist]]. He defended the [[Settler colonialism|colonisation]] of [[Australia]] and the [[Americas]], stating that the indigenous peoples were racially inferior.<ref>{{Citation|author=Martin Gilbert|year=1967|title=Winston S. Churchill: Companion Volume|title-url=https://archive.org/details/winstonschurchil5pt3chur/|chapter=The Coming of War, 1936–1939|page=616|quote=I do not admit, for instance, that a great wrong has been done to the Red Indians of America, or the black people of Australia. I do not admit that a wrong has been done to these people by the fact that a stronger race, a higher grade race, or, at any rate, a more worldly-wise race, to put it that way, has come in and taken their place.|city=London|publisher=Heinemann|isbn=0395245850|volume=5}}</ref> During the 1943 famine in British-ruled Bengal, he blamed the Bengalis for "breeding like rabbits."<ref name=":0">{{News citation|author=Rakhi Chakraborty|newspaper=Yourstory|title=The Bengal Famine: How the British engineered the worst genocide in human history for profit|date=2014-08-15|url=https://yourstory.com/2014/08/bengal-famine-genocide/amp|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220102133617/https://yourstory.com/2014/08/bengal-famine-genocide/amp|archive-date=2022-01-02|retrieved=2022-05-15}}</ref> Churchill was also sympathetic to [[National Socialism|Nazism]], complaining during the [[Tehran Conference]] that the execution of 100,000 of Nazi officers proposed by [[Joseph Stalin|Stalin]] was a "cold-blooded execution of soldiers who fought for their country."<ref>{{Web citation|newspaper=Politico|title=FDR attends Tehran conference: Nov. 28, 1943|date=2016-11-27|url=https://www.politico.com/story/2016/11/fdr-attends-tehran-conference-nov-28-1943-231852|retrieved=2024-04-27|quote=At a dinner meeting of the Big Three on Nov. 29, Stalin proposed executing 50,000 to 100,000 German officers so that Germany could not plan another war. Roosevelt, believing Stalin was not serious, quipped that “maybe 49,000 would be enough.”


== Quotes ==
Churchill, however, was outraged and denounced “the cold-blooded execution of soldiers who fought for their country.” Before storming out of the room, he said that only war criminals should be put on trial. Stalin brought him back after saying that he was only joking.}}</ref>
<blockquote>“I am strongly in favor of using poisoned gas against uncivilized tribes.”<ref>https://www.nationalchurchillmuseum.org/churchills-1919-war-office-memorandum.html</ref>


“I will not pretend that, if I had to choose between [[communism]] and Nazism, I would choose communism.”<ref>https://winstonchurchill.org/publications/finest-hour-extras/the-creeds-of-the-devil-churchill-between-the-two-totalitarianisms-1917-1945-2-of-3/</ref>
== See also ==


“To feel deep concern about the armed power of [[German Reich (1933–1945)|Germany]] is in no way derogatory to Germany. On the contrary, it is a tribute to the wonderful and terrible strength which Germany exerted in the [[First World War|Great War]], when almost single-handed she fought nearly all the world and nearly beat them... One may dislike Hitler’s system and yet admire his patriotic achievement. If our country were defeated I hope we should find a champion as indomitable to restore our courage and lead us back to our place among the nations. I have on more than one occasion made my appeal in public that the Führer of Germany should now become the Hitler of peace."<ref>https://winstonchurchill.org/resources/reference/the-fine-art-of-selective-quoting/</ref>
* [[Quotes:Winston Churchill|Quotes by Winston Churchill]]
 
“I think we shall have to take the [[Qing dynasty (1636–1912)|Chinese]] in hand and regulate them. I believe that as civilized nations become more powerful they will get more ruthless, and the time will come when the world will impatiently bear the existence of great barbaric nations who may at any time arm themselves and menace civilized nations. I believe in the ultimate partition of China—I mean ultimate. I hope we shall not have to do it in our day. The Aryan stock is bound to triumph.”<ref>https://winstonchurchill.org/publications/finest-hour/finest-hour-159/wsc-a-midnight-interview-1902/</ref>
 
“In violent opposition to all this sphere of [[Judaism|Jewish]] effort rise the schemes of the International Jews. The adherents of this sinister confederacy are mostly men reared up among the unhappy populations of countries where Jews are persecuted on account of their race. Most, if not all, of them have forsaken the faith of their forefathers, and divorced from their minds all spiritual hopes of the next world. This movement among the Jews is not new. From the days of [[Adam Weishaupt|Spartacus-Weishaupt]] to those of [[Karl Marx]], and down to [[Leon Trotsky|Trotsky]], [[Béla Kun|Bela Kun]], [[Rosa Luxemburg]], and [[Emma Goldman]], this world-wide conspiracy for the overthrow of civilisation and for the reconstitution of society on the basis of arrested development, of envious malevolence, and impossible equality, has been steadily growing. It has been the mainspring of every subversive movement during the Nineteenth Century; and now at last this band of extraordinary personalities from the underworld of the great cities of Europe and America have gripped the Russian people by the hair of their heads and have become practically the undisputed masters of that enormous empire. There is no need to exaggerate the part played in the creation of [[Marxism–Leninism|Bolshevism]] and in the actual bringing about of the [[Russian revolution of 1917|Russian Revolution]] by these international and for the most part atheistical Jews. It is certainly a very great one; it probably outweighs all others. With the notable exception of [[Vladimir Lenin|Lenin]], the majority of the leading figures are Jews.”<ref name=":1">{{Web citation|author=Winston Churchill|newspaper=Illustrated Sunday Herald|title=Zionism versus Bolshevism|date=1920-2-8|url=https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Zionism_versus_Bolshevism}}</ref></blockquote>


== References ==
== References ==

Latest revision as of 06:25, 27 April 2024

Winston Churchill
Born30 November 1874
Blenheim, England, United Kingdom
Died24 January 1965
London, England, United Kingdom
NationalityBritish
Political orientationLiberalism


Winston Churchill (30 November 1874 – 24 January 1965) was a British Conservative Party politician who served as the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom twice, first from 1940 to 1945 and again from 1951 to 1955. He presided over Britain throughout most of the Second World War, the Bengal famine of 1943 (a famine in present-day India and Bangladesh which killed an estimated 3 million people), and the accession and coronation of Queen Elizabeth II.

Churchill was a racist, an antisemite,[1] and an imperialist. He defended the colonisation of Australia and the Americas, stating that the indigenous peoples were racially inferior.[2] During the 1943 famine in British-ruled Bengal, he blamed the Bengalis for "breeding like rabbits."[3] Churchill was also sympathetic to Nazism, complaining during the Tehran Conference that the execution of 100,000 of Nazi officers proposed by Stalin was a "cold-blooded execution of soldiers who fought for their country."[4]

See also

References

  1. ↑ Winston Churchill (1920-2-8). "Zionism versus Bolshevism" Illustrated Sunday Herald.
  2. ↑
    “I do not admit, for instance, that a great wrong has been done to the Red Indians of America, or the black people of Australia. I do not admit that a wrong has been done to these people by the fact that a stronger race, a higher grade race, or, at any rate, a more worldly-wise race, to put it that way, has come in and taken their place.”

    Martin Gilbert (1967). Winston S. Churchill: Companion Volume, vol. 5: 'The Coming of War, 1936–1939'. London: Heinemann. ISBN 0395245850
  3. ↑ Rakhi Chakraborty (2014-08-15). "The Bengal Famine: How the British engineered the worst genocide in human history for profit" Yourstory. Archived from the original on 2022-01-02. Retrieved 2022-05-15.
  4. ↑
    “At a dinner meeting of the Big Three on Nov. 29, Stalin proposed executing 50,000 to 100,000 German officers so that Germany could not plan another war. Roosevelt, believing Stalin was not serious, quipped that “maybe 49,000 would be enough.”

    Churchill, however, was outraged and denounced “the cold-blooded execution of soldiers who fought for their country.” Before storming out of the room, he said that only war criminals should be put on trial. Stalin brought him back after saying that he was only joking.”

    "FDR attends Tehran conference: Nov. 28, 1943" (2016-11-27). Politico. Retrieved 2024-04-27.
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