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Re:The Rest of Us Always Knew Churchill Was a Villain by spamizbad on Saturday February 16, 2019 @05:03PM (#19181219)
If you’re going to bring up their blunders you should perhaps also mention how Churchill completely cocked-up several crucial naval operations that could have ended the war early. If he was around today he’d be what they call a “failson”

Oh and then there’s the whole Indian famine thing...

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Re:The Rest of Us Always Knew Churchill Was a Villain by KSS42 on Saturday February 16, 2019 @05:07PM (#19181240)
Which naval operations? WW1 or WW2?
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Re:The Rest of Us Always Knew Churchill Was a Villain by Svip on Saturday February 16, 2019 @05:11PM (#19181263)
I am not sure what the parent specifically has in mind, but Churchill wasn't Navy Minister during WW2, and didn't have the same direct control over the navy like he did in WW1, where he really blundered through it.

Indeed, I might imagine the UK doing better in WW2, because Churchill was less in direct control of operations.

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Re:The Rest of Us Always Knew Churchill Was a Villain by smacktoward on Saturday February 16, 2019 @05:30PM (#19181346)
Although in those times when Churchill did take direct control in WW2, he tended to screw things up. The disastrous campaigns in Norway and Greece, for instance, both had his fingerprints all over them.
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Re:The Rest of Us Always Knew Churchill Was a Villain by TheOtherHobbes on Saturday February 16, 2019 @06:01PM (#19181488)
Churchill was First Lord of the Admiralty before he took over from Chamberlain.

He was very much responsible for the Norwegian Campaign, which was widely considered a fiasco that handed Hitler a decisive victory and gave the latter enough political momentum to continue with his war plans.

https://www.historynet.com/scandinavian-twist-churchills-194...

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Re:The Rest of Us Always Knew Churchill Was a Villain by Taniwha on Saturday February 16, 2019 @05:51PM (#19181441)
Churchill was directly responsible for the Gallipoli disaster (and the naval disaster it was intended to support), he resigned from the government in disgrace
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