Posted on 05/05/2020 8:52:38 PM PDT by nickcarraway
SECONDARY school pupils are told that Winston Churchill was a “war criminal” and “a blundering reactionary” in a teaching tutorial shared by thousands of teachers.
It is also claimed the wartime leader’s speeches were “poorly received”, he was “drunk” during his “finest hour” message and Bob Geldof is more important to our history.
The lesson plan, Winston Churchill: Hero or War Criminal?” appears on the website of global education company Tes.
Using halos and red devils’ horns as bullet points, the lesson contains a potted history of the career of what it calls “an intensely controversial figure”.
Part of it says: “Churchill has been criticised for advocating the use of chemical weapons.”
But Chris McGovern, of the Campaign for Real Education, said: “They are brainwashing kids and trashing our past.
“It’s pitiful that we have planned strategy to demonise Churchill.
“We all know he was not perfect, but his views reflected the age in which he lived."
Another teaching aid sums up the controversial side of Churchill’s career as “a warmongering, blundering reactionary”.
“He was responsible for such things as the disaster at Gallipoli, the callous treatment of exploited workers in the General Strike and a failed attempt to spark off World War Three against Soviet Russia in his 'Iron Curtain' speech,” the lesson plan states.
Tes lesson plans are written by teachers and the firm said it is not responsible for content.
But I don't think most Americans realize how much Churchill damaged the U.S. and scammed FDR. And revived the USSR.
I am so sick of this wacky crap they believe.
They’d all be speaking German if it wasn’t for Churchill.
Without England for an airbase, we would not have dislodged Hitler.
This is what Enoch Powell tried to warn Brits about. But they didn’t listen.
You think we needed them, more than they needed us?
Joke post?
Which part?
Churchill scammed FDR from A to Z.
This part:
“But I don’t think most Americans realize how much Churchill damaged the U.S. and scammed FDR. And revived the USSR. “
How so? FDR wanted to be in the fight the day Germany attacked Poland, but there was no way politically he could do it.
What could you possibly argue with that?
No, they definitely needed us, but we would had no way to do D-Day or bomb German factories if England had fallen.
Yes, I didn’t say FDR wasn’t gullible. You don’t don’t fold a royal flush when your opponent has a four high.
Yeah?
It was like taking candy from a baby?
And FDR was naive and totally clueless?
A country bumpkin who didn’t have a clue what was going on?
Well, even a cursory examination of history shows Bob Geldoff is far more important to British history than Winston Churchill. I’m sure VDH would quickly conform this also. /s
I’m more interested in how you think Churchill helped revive the USSR? Do you contend he was a major pusher of lend lease? Or something like that?
Otherwise, the liberals who were demonizing him that fomented this thread complained that he tried to start WWIII over Soviet Russia.
It is widely known that FDR’s advisers were the Soviet plants who steered FDR into going easy on Russia and holding Patton back from ending the whole thing right then and there.
Remember, Japan was deathly afraid of Russia after the Battle of Khalkhin Gal. Japan cancelled their planned invasion of Siberia.
We see that Japan had no fear of the U.S., as evidenced by their attack on Pearl Harbor. But they refused to declare war on Russia, after Germany. In fact, that results of that battle were the cause of Pearl Harbor, because the leaders who wanted to take Siberia fell out of favor, and the leaders who wanted to invade the U.S. became more influential. Even though Japan was obligated, by their alliance with Germany, to go to war with the USSR, they instead signed the Soviet–Japanese Neutrality Pact. That shows you the only country Japan really feared.
How many Americans (and others) lost their lives because of FDR kowtowing to Churchill?
**Remember, Japan surrendered because of how the Russians sliced threw their armies in Manchuria, not because the U.S. had bombed them into rubble. Japan wanted to pick their occupiers, and history showed they made the right decision.
If FDR an Churchill required the USSR to go to war with Japan immediately, how much sooner would the war in the Pacific have ended?
The USSR was desperate. The U.K. was desperate. Yet the agreements made by FDR were as if the U.S. was the desperate country.
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