Winston Churchill: Savior of Freedom and Criticism of Imperialism

Many Europeans remember – unsettled and abandoned by the USA – longing for Winston Churchill, Hitler’s Nemesis. Others think “the biggest British” is a racist. To the outstanding importance of a unique hero – but who had his dark sides.

It was a moment of epochal loneliness, or at least it seemed like that – his opponents, the public, the few friends, himself. Winston Churchill, in Habitus and Rhetorik entirely the bulldog, as he liked to draw later, looked in faces full of reluctance, contempt, yes hatred. It was the MPs of his own party, the governing British conservatives. Some laughed tuned, others shouted indignantly. But Churchill was not put off: “Czechoslovakia sinks back to the dark, with silent and broken mourning and broken.