Posted on 01/22/2015 5:26:48 AM PST by Kaslin
Fifty years ago this Saturday, former British Prime Minister Winston Churchill died at age 90.
Churchill is remembered for his multiple nonstop careers as a statesman, cabinet minister, politician, journalist, Nobel laureate historian, and combat veteran. He began his career serving the British military as a Victorian-era mounted lancer and ended it as custodian of Britain's nuclear deterrent.
But he is most renowned for an astounding five-year-tenure as Britain's wartime prime minister from May 10, 1940, to June 26, 1945, when he was voted out of office not long after the surrender of Nazi Germany.
Churchill took over the day Hitler invaded Western Europe. Within six weeks, an isolated Great Britain was left alone facing the Third Reich. What is now the European Union was then either under Nazi occupation, allied with Germany or ostensibly neutral while favoring Hitler.
The United States was not just neutral. It had no intention of entering another European war -- at least not until after the surprise attack on Pearl Harbor a year and half later.
From August 1939 to June 1941, the Soviet Union was an accomplice of the Third Reich. Russian leader Josef Stalin was supplying Hitler with critical resources to help finish off Great Britain, the last obstacle in Germany's path of European domination.
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To say nothing about their fellow travelers, the Mercun Peepul.
Since the coming of the Messiah, the Leftists have been empowered to vent their hatred of soldiers, and their vengeance knows no limits.
The June 26 date is a mistake. Churchill was still Prime Minister at the beginning of the Potsdam Conference, which began July 17.
William Manchester’s biography (in trilogy) on Churchill is amazing and well worth the read, but it isn’t light reading. I’m about halfway through the third book.
The Last Lion - Visions of Glory
The Last Lion - Alone
The Last Lion - Defender of the Realm
Have they started spitting on veterans yet?
His policies killed a lot of men in WW1 and WW2.
Going back to the mid-80's my wife and I visited Blenheim Palace in the Cotswolds where Churchill was born. Later, we visited Churchill's grave in a family plot next to a very old rustic stone church just a few miles away from Blenheim. Many people are under the impression Churchill was buried at Westminister. Considering Churchill's place in history his grave-site is quite modest.
Churchill deserved better. In more ways than one. But then again, his life is his legacy, not some moss-covered monument somewhere.
I been watching Smitheron Channel they having thingy about American heiress marrying British lords in 19th and 20th century tell me a lot that Churchill drive really came from his American grandfather side
His grandfather was from Bronx NY you know New Yorkers they didn’t give rat what people think of them
The results of that 1945 election (Churchill booted in favor of a socialist scumbag) must have lead many people to wonder whether or not Great Britain deserved to survive the war.
There has never been any other like Churchill.
Sir Winston expressly wished to be buried at Bladon and in the rather modest way you described.
There is a ‘REMEMBER WINSTON CHURCHILL’ memorial in Westminster Abbey and the authorities would have dearly loved to have interred him there but, as so often, and so gloriously, happened in his lifetime - Winnie got his way.
Britain had Churchill, we had Reagan. Both countries proceeded to trash both. We suffer with the end result.Britain was just quicker to disintegrate. God help us.
Churchhill was an amazing man.
One of my heroes. Wish I’d been alive during his days.
Yes he was.
Calling Attlee a scumbag is harsh and wrong. He was a good and decent man, who sent British troops to Korea and also to defend the Empire in places like Malaya. He was a socialist when one could, as a conservative, admire socialists.
The British didn’t hate Churchill (they’d vote him back in!), what they rejected was the Tory govt which they saw had allowed them to go to war, and also that the 1945 Labour party offered a newer, more open, frankly better (in their eyes) vision of a postwar Britain. A ‘New Jerusalem’.
I must disagree, that time never existed. Never. All socialists are swine. They get no points from me for doing one or two things right whist they go about their primary objective of raping free enterprise and increasing government power.
I realize the wartime coalition was necessary but it's unfortunate that it elevated that twerp Attlee to a potential PM in the eyes of the voters, whom were snowed by the typical bullshite promises of socialist liars, they should have been ashamed of themselves, electing a water-downed version of Stalinism just after the war. It is extremely dangerous to liberty to have a socialist in a position of power. Your nation still has not recovered from Attlee's premiership, just as the US has never recovered from that pig FDR.
That’s true wisdom right there. Yes.
Khent feels the same way about you.
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