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Sempre considerei Churchill como o maior político do século passado.

Quando metade do mundo se acobardava e outra metade ignorava a ameaça que estrangulava a democracia e ambicionava aprisionar a Europa, Churchill destacou-se da generalidade dos líderes europeus, pusilânimes uns, seguidores explícitos ou acobertados,  outros,  do tirano nazi, enfrentou a besta e contribuiu decisivamente para o seu aniquilamento.

Até ontem.
Quando li na Time desta semana uma súmula de Churchill´s Secret War, de  Madhusree Mukerjee's. Destaco: 

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In 1943, some 3 million brown-skinned subjects of the Raj died in the Bengal famine, one of history's worst. Mukerjee delves into official documents and oral accounts of survivors to paint a horrifying portrait of how Churchill, as part of the Western war effort, ordered the diversion of food from starving Indians to already well-supplied British soldiers and stockpiles in Britain and elsewhere in Europe, including Greece and Yugoslavia. And he did so with a churlishness that cannot be excused on grounds of policy: Churchill's only response to a telegram from the government in Delhi about people perishing in the famine was to ask why Gandhi hadn't died yet.

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Churchill enganou-me durante demasiado tempo.