Thread by @AbhinavAgarwal

A thread (my 205 @SwarajyaMag piece):
"For Sir Winston Churchill Was an Honourable Man"

Churchill authored the six-volume magnum opus, “The Second World War”.
It helped the author earn millions of dollars in today’s value, a Nobel Prize in Literature.

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This work was written substantially by a team of ghost writers called The Syndicate – which researched and wrote the drafts for most of the book, as well as pulling material from the war records and archives.
Churchill alone collected the royalties, credit, & the Nobel.

Churchill told his private secretary that 'the Hindus were a foul race “protected by their mere pullation from the doom that is their due”'
“He wished that Air Chief Marshall Arthur Harris, head of British bomber command, could “send some of his surplus bombers to destroy them.””

As a young lad, at the military academy at Sandhurst, Churchill bemoaned that “It did seem such a pity that … the age of wars between civilized nations had come to an end forever”

Churchill nonetheless consoled himself with the fact that “‘[L]uckily, however, there were still savages and barbarous peoples’ such as Afghans and Zulus to shoot at.”

Churchill's considered opinion of Indians can be summed up with this famous statement of his:
“I hate Indians. They are a beastly people with a beastly religion.”

When Lord Wavell requested that the “few Indians officers who commanded British troops be permitted to discipline them”, it provoked an outburst from Churchill on “the poor much harassed British soldier having to face the extra humiliation of being ordered about by a brown man.”

Sir Churchill believed that once the war (the Second World War) had been won, there was “no obligation to honour promises made” to India and her leaders.

Churchill's views on Mahatma Gandhi:
“It is alarming and also nauseating to see Mr Gandhi, … striding half-naked up the steps of the Viceregal palace, … to parley on equal terms with the representative of the King-Emperor.”

Churchill said it “was not the time to crawl before a miserable little old man” (Gandhi)

On another occasion he raged that the Mahatma “ought to be lain bound hand & foot at the gates of Delhi, & then trampled on by an enormous elephant with the new Viceroy seated on its back.”

On how much India, a colony, had to sacrifice to finance England's war:

"Apart from supplying her soldiers “for some of the toughest combat in countries and the Mediterranean Sea, India was designated to provide the bulk of supplies for those theaters..."

Starting in May [1942], Amery oversaw the effort to ship from India around 40,000 tons of grain per month, a tenth of its railway engines and carriages, and even railway tracks were uprooted from less important train lines.

The colony’s entire commercial production of timber, woolen textiles and leather goods, and three-quarters of its steel and cement production, would be required for the war. . . Apart from the United Kingdom itself, India would become the largest contributor to the empire’s war

India provided goods and services worth more than £2 billion.”

How would Churchill remember this?

“They [India] were carried through the struggle on the shoulders of our small Island. … No great portion of the world population was so effectively protected from the horrors and perils of the World War as were the peoples of Hindustan.”

Is it a stretch to say that Churchill and Hitler were not very different?

Leopold Amery, Secretary of State for India during the War, once told Sir Churchill that he saw little difference “between his outlook and Hitler’s”

Amery also recorded in his diary that he was “by no means sure whether on this subject of India he [Churchill] is really quite sane.”

Amery also believed that Sir Churchill saw the “Bengali babus through the same lens as anti-Semites might perceive Jews.”

Bottom line: Churchill's own contemporaries saw him as little different from Hitler.

And to conclude with Churchill's stellar record in perpetrating a genocide:

Churchill prevented foodgrains and supplies from reaching a starving population of Bengal, where an estimated 5.7 million people died on account of the famine.

The drought was natural.
The famine was engineerd by Churchill.

The 5.7 million number is only a shade less than what were murdered by Hitler’s butchers in concentration camps.

It would be only in 1949 that the Geneva Convention guidelines would be extended to “include a prohibition against starving civilians in occupied territories.”

Could Churchill have been tried as a war criminal along with other Nazi criminals at the Nuremberg Trials?

No, for Sir Winston Churchill was an honourable man.