Biographie de Churchill

Debate: CHURCHILL HERO OR VILLAIN?

“I have nothing else to offer but blood, work, tears and sweat”

English statesman Winston Churchill uttered this famous phrase during one of his speeches.

This British man of aristocratic origin was born in the 1880s. His political career began in 1900 as a Conservative and then Liberal MP before becoming a minister on several occasions from 1906 to 1929 in England.
He was elected to the House of Commons in 1924 and sat there until the end of his life.

He is known to have threatened Hitler power in Germany at various times in the 1930s.
He became British Prime Minister in the midst of World War II in 1940. He defended his country against the invasion of Nazi ideology. He was a brilliant man of war, ready to do anything for the victory of his country. Subsequently, he moved closer to Roosevelt and in August 1941, signed the Atlantic Charter.
He allied himself with Stalin, the Russian leader, while remaining cautious about the arrival of communism in the world.
He was the main leader of the Conservative Party in England. He became one of the main characters in the victory of the allies on the axis.
He was not re-elected in 1945 but continued to influence the political scene. He denounced the "Iron Curtain" and Soviet expansionism around the world. In 1951, he was re-elected before retiring from the British political scene in 1954. In 1953 he won a Nobel Prize for Literature. He died in London, the British capital city, in 1965.

A hero ?

Churchill is regarded as one of the main protagonists to have struggled with the Nazi threat.
He was born in 1874 in Great Britain. He signed up as a war correspondent. At 25, he was sent to South Africa where he was taken prisoner of war by Boer soldiers.
A year later, at age 26, he became a MP. He is an important man in the First World War. He is British Minister of the Navy. He made some mistakes and does not choose the right military strategies but remains an illustrious man in Great Britain.
In 1940, he was elected Prime Minister of Great Britain. He decided to engage the country in the war which has recently tyrannized over Europe. Hitler, German chancellor and dictator, wanted to impose his Nazi ideology on the whole world.
We must convince the military and parliamentarians because some are for an armistice, a peace treaty between the two countries.
He opposes any peace with Adolf Hitler, he said in a speech in 1941: "We must resist him on land and in the seas. We must follow him wherever he goes."
He appears as the fundamental figure in the resistance of the allies to the axis and to Nazism.
He supported France on numerous occasions, such as General De Gaulle's famous appeal in June 1940, when he offered him the airwaves of British radio, the BBC.
He is also the first statesman to receive the Nobel Prize for Literature
He wrote nearly 43 books in his life. In 1953, he won this prize for his 6 volumes of war memoirs. He is the first statesman to receive this honor.

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At the age of 81 and with serious health concerns, he left his post in the governance of the country. He died in 1965. During his national funeral nearly 300,000 people came to meditate at the tomb of the "old lion" as he was called.
In 2005, 40 years after his death, he was elected Britain's favorite political figure.

Churchill as a racist personality?

Today Churchill is seen as a hero, but let us remember those racist quotes that make him a man of controversial ideas. The British erase from their memories some racist remarks by the statesman in favor of his heroic stewardship of the Second World War.

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