• sodium_nitride [she/her, any]@hexbear.net
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    Winston Churchill glazing is really amazing to see as an Indian. It feels like people who are glazing Adolf Hitler, except the Hitler glazers aren’t being seen as wierd nazi fucks, but just normal people with normal politics.

    Churchill glazing really does prove that history is written by the victors, because Churchill is in reality what the western propaganda says about Stalin.

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    Did Churchill actually despise nazis tho? I mean FDR and Stalin were like “What if we executed 50,000 nazi officers, haha unless 👉 👈”, where Churchill was appalled at the idea of killing good, patriotic nazis, in 1943.

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    and Churchill loved the British people.

    Even disregarding all the genocidal acts he ordered in British colonies…

    Is it love to send the troops in to break up strikes? Or advocate for the sterilisation of large swathes of the population? Was his affinity of meat grinder tactics like in Gallipoli bourne of love?

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    Remember when the Ukraine thing started and libs were suddenly WWII experts? They kept calling anyone against an ongoing war “Chamberlain”

    I’d like to see how they square the circle about how the USSR were the good guys in WWII

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      They pretend the USSR and Germany were allies until Operation Barbarosa. Or they compartmentalize the Ukrainian and Russian national identities; the Ukrainian soldiers fought the nazis, but it was Russia who was responsible for all the bad things that the USSR did, such as holodomer.

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        well it was the russian george stalin who did all the bad things like make the ukrainians fight the nazis. the brave ukrainians had to do it because they were following orders

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    Some other quotes from ol’ Winnie:

    1902

    I think we shall have to take the Chinese in hand and regulate them. I believe that as civilized nations become more powerful they will get more ruthless, and the time will come when the world will impatiently bear the existence of great barbaric nations who may at any time arm themselves and menace civilized nations. 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.

    1910

    “The unnatural and increasingly rapid growth of the Feeble-Minded and Insane classes […] constitutes a national and race danger which it is impossible to exaggerate. […] I feel that the source from which the stream of madness is fed should be cut off and sealed up before another year has passed.”

    1920

    "This movement among the Jews is not new. From the days of Spartacus-Weishaupt to those of Karl Marx, and down to Trotsky (Russia), Bela Kun (Hungary), Rosa Luxembourg (Germany), and Emma Goldman (United States)… this worldwide conspiracy for the overthrow of civilisation and for the reconstitution of society on the basis of arrested development, of envious malevolence, and impossible equality, has been steadily growing. It has been the mainspring of every subversive movement during the 19th century; and now at last this band of extraordinary personalities from the underworld of the great cities of Europe and America have gripped the Russian people by the hair of their heads and have become practically the undisputed masters of that enormous empire.”

    1937

    “I do not admit that the dog in the manger has the final right to the manger, though he may have lain there for a very long time I do not admit that right. I do not admit for instance that a great wrong has been done to the Red Indians of America or the black people of Australia. I do not admit that a wrong has been to those people by the fact that a stronger race, a higher-grade race or at any rate a more worldly-wise race, to put it that way, has come in and taken their place. I do not admit it. I do not think the Red Indians had any right to say, ‘American continent belongs to us and we are not going to have any of these European settlers coming in here’. They had not the right, nor had they the power.”

    I do not understand the squeamishness about the use of gas. I am strongly in favour of using poisonous gas against uncivilised tribes.”

    1943

    “why be apologetic about Anglo-Saxon superiority, that we were superior, that we had the common heritage which had been worked out over the centuries in England and had been perfected by our constitution.”

    1954

    I hate people with slit eyes and pigtails. I don’t like the look of them or the smell of them – but I suppose it does no great harm to have a look at them.