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Agree with you about history being written rewritten and revised by the victors
I don’t have personal knowledge of his exploits but contemporary accounts for example ‘Wellington’ by Barbara Longford And Wellington: The Years of the Sword.
Wellingtons Welsh General: life of Sir Thomas Picton by Robert Harvard
paint his character quite darkly whilst praising his ferocious approach to fighting battles. Seems the type of bloke you’d want on your side rather than playing for the opposition. A bit like Sergio Ramos
Churchill also sacrificed the 51st Highland Division after Dunkirk and was the chief architect of the division of the Balkans and the separation of the Middle East to create the state of Israel. The putting down with the help of the Japanese of all people of the Indian army’s revolt in Singapore during WW 1
And so on
He’s got an awful lot to answer for
The trouble is that billions of people the Pope, Martin Luther King, Desmond Tutu, Justin Welsby and Al Sharpton, to name but a few, believe that God ( be he Allah, Zeus, Christ, Wotan, Zoroastrian, et al. ) is real even though he condones and instructs upon slavery in the Bible. You have to be very careful who you refer to as fictional. Even the World’s best stand up comic Trump still intones “so help me God”.
She may have been ruthless but hardly in the class of Hitler, Mussolini and Franco ( add Mao and Stalin to that list as well).
Inaccurate too. I am sorry if she affected your life in a negative way but she was no despot as she did not have absolute power in the way the others above did.
Elected yes but do you really think she was a decent woman? She was a disgusting, horrible person who trampled over the working class of this country. Ruined the country, closed major industries, ridiculously high interest rates under her premiership, great if you had thousands or millions in the bank, a massive struggle if you had a mortgage and a few kids. She was evil!!!!!
Are there any statues of God - the Old Testament Beardy Boy?
All the statues/effigies I can think of from the various Christian or Jewish traditions are of saints, Jesus or Mary or biblical kings and prophets like David and Moses.
There have been a lot of paintings of God (Sistine Chapel ceiling, Orthodox icons, alter pieces etc). If you are arguing for those to be covered over with a coat of magnolia emulsion I have to disagree - apart from the Sistine Chapel which is hideous!
Your not on your own its okay to admire extraordinary individuals and leaders , all of them have made mistakes and delivered a difference that both benefits or sadly adversely effects others , at times like WW2 and Nazi
we needed strength and hard decisions we go it thank god as its delivered a great country not a perfect one but better than most with some wonderful freedoms .
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Churchill condoned the murder of not just non British people but also his own countrymen, collateral damage??????? Thatcher destroyed towns, villages, communities through her evil policies, places that have never recovered, her legacy is the sad, drug addled ghettoes with no hope throughout the UK. These are just some of their evil doings and still some people laud them, the history taught in schools requires a rethink.
When I joined this board many years ago, albeit under another user name, there were no preconditions re. political persuasion. I find it disturbing that an “ International “ poster would deride me for being a Tory, even if I was one. It seems that your life post Thatcher has been one dedicated to the enviable pastime of fishing whilst I was running a sweat shop, working 16 hours a day , which eventually enabled me to buy my own stretch of the Usk.