41 Years ago today (24/1/1965) Winston Churchill dies

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Originally Posted by CCIP

Personally, I've always been a fan of Churchill's public image. A real leader, to be sure.

But there was a compellingly interesting argument about him that I've heard from a professor of mine last year - which is essentially that from a purely 'real-political' perspective, Churchill is to a large part to blame for the loss of British dominance in world affairs subsequent to WWII - because by refusing to make a deal with Hitler in 1940, he had doomed the British Empire to a five-year committment which it really could not afford and for which it had basically paid with its empire. In other words, although Churchill acted with a tremendous benefit to the free world - he did so contrary to the interest of his own nation.

An interesting view, if anything. Perhaps somewhat stretched, but still :hmm:

He made the right decision allright because to sign a deal with Hitler was to lose ones empire anyway.

-S