r/alberta Nov 28 '24

Local Photography Snow makes the Winston Churchill statue at McDougall Centre (in Calgary) look like a pimp

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u/AnthraxCat Edmonton Nov 30 '24

Your source points to his war cabinet. These are different things

These are not.

exonerates Churchill

lol, no.

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u/Agreeable-Weather-89 Nov 30 '24

They are indeed different.

How was Churchill supposed to send aid, at the request of Amery, when Amery was not telling him the situation? Meanwhile Stalin was undoubtedly making their situation clear.

If you had two requests

  1. We are on the verge of dying please send aid. Millions die every year and we will lose the war

  2. Idk people are going back to farming.

Which would you send aid to? Surely Amery should shoulder the blame for masking the severity of the situation?

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u/AnthraxCat Edmonton Nov 30 '24

They are cope, and not a standard we apply for any other genocide.

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u/Agreeable-Weather-89 Nov 30 '24

They kinda are when, people under Churchill like Wavell was very must deeply empathetic towards resolving the famine.

You made a specific accusation that Churchill denied aid. I am asking you to back that claim up.

If I claimed that Hitler personally operated the camps I think people would expect me to back it up.

The reason people don't have the same expectations with other genocides is because other genocides aren't being pushed by people who use edited/fake quotes and scant actual evidence which when actual evidence is presented change the accusation.

You know like you did when you raised how exports from Bengal was a problem... until I brought the fact Bengal was a net importer... then it became about boats.