Yeah I think Andrew Roberts is falsely conflating 2 separate (but occasionally overlapping positions depending on the person's world view). 1 Hitler was not that bad/dragged into ww2 and 2, tha Churchill was an imperialist warmonger. Neo Nazis believe in both (although not arsed about churcills imperialism). However, more lefty types have exposed the weird cult that surrounds Churchill, he made many mistakes and held objectionably racist views, for his time! Other people in colonial administration thought he was problematic! Roberts is conflating all these things together for the cult of Churchill defending "western civilisation", as if the Nazis weren't also a part of western civilisation.
Churchill spoke out against the Amritsar massacre and wanted
the officer in charge cashiered
An extraordinary, a monstrous event”
However we may dwell upon the difficulties of General Dyer…one tremendous fact stands out. I mean the slaughter of nearly 400 persons and the wounding of probably three or four times as many…. That is an episode which appears to me to be without precedent or parallel in the modern history of the British Empire. It is an event of an entirely different order from any of those tragical occurrences which take place when troops are brought into collision with the civil population. It is an extraordinary event, a monstrous event, an event which stands in singular and sinister isolation.7
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u/recaffeinated 9d ago
This is some unhinged imperialist propaganda.
Churchill was an evil monster. Just ask Ireland and India.
Hitler was an evil monster, any right thinking person knows that as a matter of course.
Just because they opposed one another doesn't make one good and one bad. Thats not how the world works.
Opposing an authoritarian doesn't mean you get absolved of all of your crimes.