Uniform, victory salute and cigar: Winston Churchill in the 1940s and now without his trademark smoke
Posted on 06/14/2010 4:08:41 PM PDT by naturalman1975
The face is instantly familiar, the two-fingered salute unmistakable.
But are these actually the same photograph of Sir Winston Churchill?
In the original photograph the war leader has his cigar gripped firmly in the corner of his mouth.
But in the other image - currently greeting visitors to a London museum - his favourite smoke has been digitally extinguished.
Uniform, victory salute and cigar: Winston Churchill in the 1940s and now without his trademark smoke
It seems the man who steered Britain through the most dangerous period of its recent history may have fallen victim to the modern curse of political correctness.
Last night the question of who removed the cigar and when was something of a mystery.
The Winston Churchill's Britain at War Experience, in South-East London, confessed to being astonished to discover that the image may have been doctored.
Which is a little embarrassing for the staff at the charitable trust, because the photograph features on a giant poster hanging above the museum's main door.
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Not to mention, it makes him look like a stroke victim, which considering his health in later life is very inappropriate (he came back from stroke to be Prime Minister again.)
. . . and FDR could walk, too. And, oh, yeah, he was faithful to Eleanor.
Disgusting. There’s nothing wrong with a good cigar from time to time.
“My rule of life prescribed as an absolutely sacred rite smoking cigars and also the drinking of alcohol before, after and if need be during all meals and in the intervals between them.” - W.C.
Lesser known, General Curtis Lemay was a cigar smoker. I saluted him while he was in uniform with the ever present cigar in his mouth, he returned the salute, not bothering to remove the cigar.
How very Soviet of them. Did you ever see a book called “The Commissar Vanishes: The Falsification of Photographs and Art in Stalin’s Russia,” by David King? Too bad we are following in their footsteps.
I was just about to light up a Churchill with my glass of Syrah.
Look up.
If you saluted General LeMay then Graybeard is an very appropriate tag!
Following a same train of thought, this must mean that in 60 years, at least in pictures, Larry Sinclair will be proudly united with his lover.
Unbelievable!
There are some pictures of FDR without his cigarette holder, but very few of Churchill without a cigar in his mouth or hand. The cigars that Churchill smoked were Julietas (now commonly referred to as Churchills), they typically take between 60 and 90 minutes to smoke and he smoked between 15 and 20 each day, so unless he was eating or bathing he ALWAYS had one lit.
The only thing more absurd would be showing Bogart without a cigarette.
Ping.
Typical of the Stalinist’s in the media.
Shades of Winston Smith and the Memory Hole.
What gets me about this is I teach history to teenage boys.
If a boy ever asked me about Churchill smoking, I’d simply point out that this was in an era when the dangers of smoking weren’t very well understood and when most men smoked.
There’s no reason to take this out.
Yes. That picture reinforces my theory that Stalin had Kirov killed.
The Ministry of Truth has decreed that smoking is doubleplus ungood.
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