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> You wouldn't dare enter or knock on a bathroom door that said ENGAGED, especially one belonging to Churchill would you?

Eh...I would. A huge part of my family was wiped out because of Churchill's machinations leading to the Bengal famine. My grandfather was able to move south with the sacrifice of his siblings.

Churchill's actions put him in the grey area for me.

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Thanks for saying that. I get tired of the constant lionisation of Churchill.

I remember my father, who was in the RAF in WW2, pointing out that a lot of people in the UK hated Churchill - they respected him as a war leader but didn't want him running the country after the war as it would mean a return to the pre-war status quo. This perhaps explains who he wasn't elected as PM in the 1945 general election - picking a Labour government under Clement Attlee that delivered things like the NHS.

I was talking more about his staff down in the CWR during wartime.

But I hear you.

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