Opinion: The trouble with Winston Churchill is that he was a hero partly because he was such a daft racist

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mrmarksteel Hitler sought peace, Churchill sought war.

mrmarksteel Churchill was a Little Englander Supremacist who, in his lifetime butchered: Kenyans Irish Kurds Australians Indians Boers Sudanese Iraquis Iranians. Also, he was Unapologetically anti-Semitic, Islamophobic & Xenophobic! Then again, so are Most English!!!

mrmarksteel His generals were constantly having to restrain him

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