Winston Churchill died on this day in 1965.
Thread on some of the appalling things that Churchill - "the greatest Briton" - said throughout his lifetime:
Churchill on Benito Mussolini, 1926:
"If I had been an Italian I am sure I would have been wholeheartedly from start to finish with Fascismo's triumphant struggle against the bestial appetites and passions of Leninism".
"If I had been an Italian I am sure I would have been wholeheartedly from start to finish with Fascismo's triumphant struggle against the bestial appetites and passions of Leninism".
Churchill on Mussolini again:
"I could not help being charmed by his gentle, simple bearing and his calm, detached poise".
"I could not help being charmed by his gentle, simple bearing and his calm, detached poise".
Churchill on Indians, 1942:
“I hate Indians. They are a beastly people with a beastly religion". The Bengal famine "was their own fault for breeding like rabbits".
“I hate Indians. They are a beastly people with a beastly religion". The Bengal famine "was their own fault for breeding like rabbits".
Churchill on killing Indians, 1919:
"I am strongly in favour of using poisoned gas against uncivilised tribes... The objections of the India Office to the use of gas against natives are unreasonable".
"I am strongly in favour of using poisoned gas against uncivilised tribes... The objections of the India Office to the use of gas against natives are unreasonable".
Churchill on Zionist settler-colonialism in Palestine, 1937:
"I do not admit that a wrong has been done to these people by the fact that a stronger race, a higher race, or, at any rate, a more worldly-wise race... has come in and taken their place. I do not admit it".
"I do not admit that a wrong has been done to these people by the fact that a stronger race, a higher race, or, at any rate, a more worldly-wise race... has come in and taken their place. I do not admit it".
Churchill on Palestinians, 1930s:
"Barbaric hordes who ate little but camel dung".
"Barbaric hordes who ate little but camel dung".
Churchill on indigenous people in the Americas, 1937:
"I do not admit... that a great wrong has been done to the Red Indians of America... I do not think the Red Indians had any right to say, 'The American Continent belongs to us'".
"I do not admit... that a great wrong has been done to the Red Indians of America... I do not think the Red Indians had any right to say, 'The American Continent belongs to us'".
Churchill on China, 1902:
"I think we shall have to take the Chinese in hand and regulate them... 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".
"I think we shall have to take the Chinese in hand and regulate them... 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".
Churchill on Nazism, 1937:
"I will not pretend that, if I had to choose between Communism and Nazism, I would choose Communism".
"I will not pretend that, if I had to choose between Communism and Nazism, I would choose Communism".
Churchill on Hitler, 1937:
"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 admirable to restore our courage and lead us back to our place among the nations".
"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 admirable to restore our courage and lead us back to our place among the nations".
Churchill's anti-semitism, 1920:
"This movement among the Jews is not new... this worldwide conspiracy for the overthrow of civilisation and for the reconstitution of society on the basis of arrested development, of envious malevolence... has been steadily growing".
"This movement among the Jews is not new... this worldwide conspiracy for the overthrow of civilisation and for the reconstitution of society on the basis of arrested development, of envious malevolence... has been steadily growing".
Churchill on Ireland, 1920s:
"The choice was clearly open: crush them with vain and unstinted force, or try to give them what they want. These were the only alternatives and most people were unprepared for either. Here indeed was the Irish spectre - horrid and inexorcisable".
"The choice was clearly open: crush them with vain and unstinted force, or try to give them what they want. These were the only alternatives and most people were unprepared for either. Here indeed was the Irish spectre - horrid and inexorcisable".
Churchill's proposed Tory election slogan, 1955:
"Keep Britain white"
"Keep Britain white"
Churchill was a white supremacist who believed in Britain's right to rule over vast swathes of the globe, backed up by extraordinary violence.
This is the Churchill you don't read about in most history books.
This is the Churchill you don't read about in most history books.
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